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OF HUMAN NATURE, AS READ BY 

"Phrenology, "Physiognomy, "Physiology, 
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By Jeduthun McLaughlin &*^ 

AUTHOR OF- (/£^^/^r*t -^ 

"Persons We Meet,'' "The Enquirer,'- "Basement 
Tenants," "Upper Stqries," "The House 
We Live In," Etc. 

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan. 

The proper, study of mankind is man. 
See him from nature rising slow to art, 

To copy instinct then was reason's partP 

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1896. 
By Jeduthun McLaughlin, 

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. 



PREFACE. 

So very few facts authentic and absolute, enter into 
the impenetrable mystery between our birth, and death, 
CALLED LIFE— that much of the happiness of the pres- 
ent is sacrificed in vain remembrances of the past, and 
equally hopeless imaginations of the future. We are 
here without any will or dictation on our part for our 
appearence, and with no knowledge as to the time of 
our departure. 

Metaphysicians and philosophers who have devoted 
their entire lifetime to scientific investigation, from the 
Archaean, down to the Quaternary ages, have demon- 
strated that earth-building has been one continuation of 
an ascending series. That this solid terra firma, is but 
the remains of what has been animate; the grave-yard 
of all past creation. Palseontological researches, and fos- 
siliferous deposits, present characters of gnomes, pixies, 
afrites, fairies, genii; and upon these hypotheses, they af- 
firm, that our descent has been a gradation from the low- 
est polyp. 

Happily, however, few persons are abnormally develop- 
ed in the faculty ot tracing genealogy. It is well to pay 
due deference to the masters; but to the great mass of us 
who represent the utilitarian, work-a-day world, this 
knowledge affords little alleviation and is of secondary 
importance to the materialist's requirements of three 
meals for to-day. 

Theology, represented by the brainiest men the world 
has ever known, has submitted voluminous matter per- 
taining to the life to come. Without "that light which 
lighteth every man that cometh into the world," and in- 
tuitive knowledge, nothing has been adduced more com- 
forting and satisfactory to the craving soul than doctrines 
analogous to the homly faith which inspired the aborig- 
ines in the belief of the existence of the "Great Spirit" 
and "Happy Hunting Grounds." 



PREFACE, 

These pages are dedicated to those persons who realize 
that we are but passengers from time, to eternity— that 
all oi the bodily functions and mental faculties are for 
our normal gratification, here, and now, and that by bring- 
ing into subjection the subordinate ones, the superior 
qualities will become a prolific source of enjoyment dur- 
ing our journey. And to those who appreciate the par- 
amount importance of securing positions best adapted to 
their various tastes and talents, the execution of which 
will develop harmonious relations in life, enabling them 
thereby to adjudicate the intricate details connected with 
our existence, in the light of reason and intelligent ap- 
plication, this effort is submitted. Especially to those 
who realize a consciousness of having adopted an avoca- 
tion in life for which they have no natural aptitude. To 
the young, who have not as yet decided upon a specific 
course in the fulfillment of nature's laws and human char- 
acter. To parents, who feel the responsibility of placing 
their children in fields of usefulness. To the candid, 
honest heart contemplating the most momentous ques- 
tion entering into human experience — marriage. To every 
sincere soul earnestly endeavoring not to fall short of 
the glory for which they were created; and to every per- 
son who feels a solicititude for the welfare of the race, 
who would welcome the reign of "peace on earth and good 
will to men," we commend an honest, impartial, critical 
examination, based on Science of Human Nature, the only 
means extant to qualify the children ol men, for the pos- 
sibilities attainable by strict compliance with one's partic- 
ular endowments, and perchance to awaken some uncon- 
scious latent powers, that have been lying dormant and 
without such professional delineation, might forever re- 
main in total oblivion. 

This is an age of specialties. The coming man will 
prefer to be a professional master in one art, to being a 
wayfarer among the fellow-crafts of a dozen trades. 



PREFACE. 

Conditions and environments with which we are sur- 
rounded are continually molding influences as iar reach- 
ing as the infinite shores ol eternity. 

Jars and discords in domestic life, crime and causal- 
ity, and embarassment and failures in business, exist 
largely by reason of assumed responsibilities for which 
there is no natural adaptability. 

Nature provides space, filling all immensity, from 
which phenomena her children are enabled to draw ma- 
terial out of which is created a fact— a truth. From the 
same source, and in exactly the same manner will in- 
spiration be vouchsafed to natural endowments applied 
in life. The line of demarkation between the capitalist 
and borrower is the same. Personal effort wrongly ap- 
plied is subject to royalty by paying tribute to some su- 
perior by following. Personal effort rightly applied is com- 
petency equivalent to compound interest of sub-ordinate 
followers. 

And now, that our relations as delineator, and 
delineated, will be the means of applying the science 
of Human Nature in the discharge of our life duties, 
thereby augmenting our own happiness as well as to 
lighten the burden of others; that, as the shadows length- 
en toward the closing day we may enjoy the satisfaction 
consequent upon a life spent in the discharge of duties 
tor which we were best adapted, and at last, we may with 
a full cargo of loving deeds, glide into harbor on a calm 
sea, with sails unfurled and all hands on board shouting 
victory, is the sincere desire of 

The Author. 



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CONTENTS. 



MAN 








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EDUCATION 








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UPATION ... 








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POSSESSIONS 






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32 


HOME 




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UBILITIES 






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. 41 


EXPLANATION 








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PHYSK A L ORGANIZA TION 




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TEMPERAMENTS 








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MPERAMENTAL 


SELECTIONS 


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CEREBRAL OR CANS. 




No 


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1 Amativeness 


53 


23 


Constructiveness 


86 


J Conjugality 


55 


21+ 


Ideality 


88 


S Parental Lore 


57 


25 


Sublimity 


90 


4 Friendship 


58 


26 


Imitation 


91 


5 Inhabit ice ness 


60 


27 


Mirthfulness 


93 


a Continuity 


61 


28 


Individuality 


95 


7 I itativeness 


63 


29 


Form 


97 


8 Combativeness 


64 


30 


Size 


99 


9 Destruct iveness 


66 


31 


Weight 


101 


10 Aliment iveness 


67 


32 


Color . 


108 


11 Bibativeness 


69 


33 


Order 


105 


12 Acquisitiveness 


70 


34 


Calculation 


107 


/-; Se&retiveness 


72 


85 


Locality 


109 


14 Cautiousness 


73 


36 


Eventuality 


111 


J 5 Approbativeness 


75 


87 


Time 


113 


16 Self Kdeem 


76 


38 


Tune 


115 


17 Firmness 


77 


39 


Language 


117 


18 Conscientiousness 


79 


40 


Causality 


119 


19 Hope 


80 


41 


Comparison 


121 


20 Spirituality 


82 


42 


Human Nature 


124 


21 Veneration 


83 


43 


Agreeableness 


126 


22 Benevolence 


85 


44 


Conclusion 


130 



CHAPTER I. 
MAN. 

— ^Ngb^t^e j^i>-^> — 

^p^phat is. man? Who can tell? Whence he com- 
Wl eth? Whither he goeth? "Who is able for 
these things?" Who will give a diagnosis of this u iear- 
fully and wonderfully made animal? Who will render 
a prognosis of the dissoluble material, and spirit? What 
is the inspiration that enters into our organic elements 
that gives us an intuitive knowledge of Immortality? 
Who possess credentials or have a theses signifying the 
phenomena of Humanity? How far from the truth is 
this assertion: we know more about every thing else than we 
know about ourselves? 

The crowning act of the Architect of the Universe was 
creating man. Genesis, tells us that "God created man 
in his own image." We are then, a part of God, Immor- 
tal, "Because He lives we shall live also." Is this Incent- 
ive, Intuition, Consciousness, the soul; the medium 
through which the brain receives and transmits its func- 
tions of reason above the brute creation? Who will ex- 
plain? 

This same natural element has been manifest in every 
tribe and province since the morning of the first sunrise. 

The old Norseman, Mahomet, Odin, Luther, Sweed- 
enborg, Seers, in all ages, have left this Godhood, inex- 
plicable Human Existence — in silent eloquence. 

Must we all pass along this highway, without awaken- 
ing our sensibilities to the laws of the Universe? Its 
immensity? Will we ever be able to comprehend the 
Infinite in our structure? To realize the fearful fact of 
our existence? Of our reality? In every brave soul we 



11 POSSIBILITIES, 

can read the unwritten law of his being — sincerity, hon- 
, ol purpose, earnestness, faith; this mysterious* in- 
describable intuition that brings the creature^n com- 
munion with the Creator. No language is adequate to 
express this sacred relationship. We live by believeing, 
by heroic action. The road is crowded with insincere, 
palsied, atrophied souls who squander the time in argu- 
ing and contending for material proofs. Any one could 
do that 

Occasionally, some one, inspired by the eloquence of 
silence, steps out of the beaten path; blazes a road through 
the primeval forest and comes out by a near cut, years 
and cycles ahead of the crowd he left upon the dusty 
highway. At the time, he is called "fanatic;" in these 
"latter days'' we use the term "crank," but centuries af- 
terwards, the world recognizes their worth and lavishly 
erects monuments to their memories, and truly attributes 
to them "Genius," "Hero" and "Patriot." 

Every age produces its requirements. The benificient 
provisions of an all wise Creator are beautifully exem- 
plified in the arrangement by which discoveries, inventions 
and sciences, have been bestowed upon the race at pro- 
pitious periods. 

Practices and customs prevail at one period successfully, 
and are superseded by radical, and often adverse meth- 
ods, yet in their day they met the approbation of those in 
need. Simply a "gradation" — another of nature's organ- 
ic laws, compeling us to learn — To continually invest- 
igate. Action! We never "graduate;" the school of 
experience continues with no vacation. 

The classic Greeks bestowed upon iEsculapius and 
Hygiea divine honors, "God, and Godess" of Medicine. 
Their remedial agencies were prepared and satisfactory 
to the requirements of the human system, centuries be- 
fore the circulation of the blood, oxygen and hydrogyn 
were discovered, yet contemplating what the revelations 



MAN. 12 

of science may adduce in the years to come, we would 
not at our stage of the drama, dare assert that their the- 
ories were empirical. 

Many active practitioners to day, well remember the 
advent of anatomical text books advocating fibrous struc- 
ture and significant convolutions of the brain; prior to 
this time the brain had been termed u a membraneous 
substance of little consequence.'' This same class can 
vividly recall the clinical practice of admitting no drink 
in fevers except hot teas. Prior to this epoch .but one 
step, "bleeding," was the panacea for all ills that flesh 
inherited, or acquired. How absurd the following prac- 
tice, as copied from a standard history on the fatal ill- 
ness of Gen. Washington, would be to day. "On Fri- 
day, the 12 of December, 1799, Gen. Washington rode 
over his farms on a tour of inspection through a driv- 
ing sleet storm. He became wet and chilled. As a con- 
sequence he took a severe cold, but no alarming symp- 
toms developed till Sunday morning the 14th, when he 
was so choked up that he could hardly speak, and ex- 
perienced great difficulty in breathing. His family be- 
came alarmed and sent for his medical advisers. During 
the interval, a pint of blood was taken from him by an 
attendant. About three hours afterward, Dr. Craik ar- 
rived, and continued the bleeding and also applied a 
Spanish blister to his throat. Two hours afterward Dr. 
Craik took another pint of blood without affording the 
patient any relief. 

At this crisis Dr. Dick, and soon after Dr. Brown, 
both of whom had previously been sent for, arrived. 
A consultation was held, and resulted in bleeding the 
patient again. This time the blood ran slowly, and did 
not produce any symptoms of improvement, and despite 
the physicians' heroic efforts, Gen. Washington passed 
peacefully away." 

Equally menacing to our sense of humanitarian in- 



13 POSSIBILITIES. 

stincta has been legislative, statutory enactments. The 
shadow ol the pillory and gibbet have Scarcely faded 
from the memory of persons now living, [ncrecbilotis as 
it sounds to our ears to-day, persons have been fexecuted 
for witchcraft in the new world, that points with pride 
to the Immortal document which declares: 'That all 
men have the inalienable right of life, liberty and the 
pursuit of happiness." 

So it has been in the past. So it is at present. So 
it will bo in time to come. The insatiate desire of this 
living soul is investigation. The trophies won in form- 
er conquests will not assuage the gnawing hunger for 
coining one new fact. For discovering one new truth. 
The archives of science may contain prototypes of all 
requirements necessary for generations that are gone; 
but the pulsations of life, inspiration, intuition, are 
the ever present, inherent vibrations for the unrealized. 

This mysterious analogy between this God— man, and 
the laws by which nature maintains her affinities, vouch- 
safes to us the miraculous experience of living. In- 
trinsically one being: God, man, nature. Tradition, 
history, experience, eternity— all the same. Truth, 
earnestness, sincerity, will never die; weaving them in- 
to our life fabric we assimilate all that they imply— 
and transcend Earth's limitations for the Divine Sig- 
nificance of Eternity. 

What is man? Let the author explain the inspira- 
tion which frames his words into sentences that grow 
brighter as the years go by: the orator; the depths of 
eloquence which arouses all our emotions and dormant 
faculties, and we realize the unseen beauties of one com- 
mon brotherhood. Who can comprehend the musician's 
sacred melodies, as the enchanted vespers reach our be- 
reaved hearts in tender sympathy? 

Ah, man! Finite mind has no exegesis for these great 
souls who live in the Infinite realm of communion with 
this, the everlasting silence. 



AMBITION. 14 

Where will we go but back to that Source from which 
cometh all our Light: "For thou hast made him a lit- 
tle lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with 
glory and honor. 

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works 
of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet." 

CHAPTER II. 
AMBITION. 



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jllie rudimental elements of our being depend upon 
action. Each victory acquired implies additional con- 
quest; the whole structure of human existence is one of 
continued strife. From the embryo struggle for respira- 
tory life, to the acme of intelligence, nature's organic 
laws have made no provisions for our maintenance 
without effort on our part. 

Ambition, is the chief corner stone in the founda- 
tion upon which the whole superstructure of our ultimate 
success and happiness must be built. The incentive to 
such ambition has much to do with results, wheth- 
er we shall build on the "rock" and remain as impen- 
etrable as time, or on the "sands of the sea," and be 
washed away. 

Climatic influences, have, perhaps, more to do with 
this development than any other one factor in our organ- 
ization. The Bushman, in South American jungles, 
would hardly be supposed to exhibit moral and intel- 
lectual attainments— he has no need of them; clothing, 
dwellings and provisions are spontaneously provided to 
meet his requirements, peculiarities characteristic of the 
nation to which he belongs. Hence we find people in- 
digenous to those climates unrestrained, effeminate and 
sensual; little above the brute creation in instinct, and 



Ifi POSSIBILITIES. 

wholly given up to the proclivities of rapine and mur- 
der. Ambition under such circumstances and conditions 
would only be a synonym of lust and animal propensi- 
ties both natural and inherent. 

The human structure is so suseptible to such abnormal 
development, natural and acquired, perverted customs 
and inherited mental peculiarities, that we can only 
proceed upon an hypothesis of a well balanced temper- 
ament, an active brain, normal in all its faculties, and 
an inheritance of "blood" through many generations. 

Ambition is the direct constituent of Acquisitiveness, 
with modified relations to a few other organs,and de- 
pends on the "ruling groups in the cerebral confor- 
mation whether it will be a "savor of life unto 
life, or of death unto death." With Conscientiousness 
large, Approbativeness and Secretiveness medium, or 
small, and the moral faculties well in the ascendency — 
coupled with a Vital— Mental temperament; the "dan-, 
ger signals 1 ' may all be taken in, with the assurance 
of the "right of way" and of the safe arrival in the 
"Union Depot" on schedule time. 

Ambition with abnormal development of Secretive- 
ness, Acquisitiveness, Amativeness and Approbativeness, 
in connection with medium, or deficient moral facul- 
ties produces the morbid, vicious, perpetrators of crime. 

So we see that ambition, the most potent emotion 
combined in the organization of human mind is sus- 
septible of Sublimest inspiration, or, perverted, prolific 
of all that is low and groveling; consequently we are 
admonished of the necessity of proper motives, and cor- 
rect understanding in applying diligence in the propa- 
gation of our life work. 

Ambition to succeed is an inherent quality of our 
organization. It is never a fortuity. It has no com- 
bination with luck. It is never found. It is the last 
link in a long chain; each preceding link has been 



AMBITION. 16 

welded by the brawn and muscle of the apprentice at 
long hours, and full days of hard, persistent work. 

A born genius is not an equivalent of greatness. 
The eminently successful pre-requisite possessed by those 
who fill history, has been work. Our business here is 
to be developed. The "Doors of Fate" have always been 
swinging on the same hinges. Those who have secur- 
ed admittance, have learned the same trade. They have 
used the same tools. They have paid the same price 
for their seats. There is plenty of room for those who 
can put down the equivalent. 

Along this great thoroughfare of life, are "tramps" 
who have perverted this law of usefulness — trying to 
"dead-head" their way through. They think it looks 
"shrewd" to get something for nothing. They raise is- 
sues with corporations, (compeditors) and fight monop- 
olies (positions.) Making themselves useful to their 
constituents never entered their minds. Being useless 
to themselves, they are consequently useless to every- 
body else. In this Telegraphip, Telephonic, Lightning- 
Express age, they are, with the motley crowd left be- 
hind. Because they have rendered no service they are 
entitled to no pay. To no position. 

Ambition is the legitimate title to true nobility. 
Manhood is the birthright of every soul. Manhood, 
means character. It is an effect. It comes of itself. 
When the conditions are fulfilled, fruition is the result, 
in trustful obedience to the law of service. It comes by 
waiting. It is the vibration of the soul itself. A 
struggle from the beginning. The frail drop out. On- 
ly the strong remain. On the higher plains it becomes 
a hand to hand contest of veterans; of heroes; scarred 
survivors of many battles; a conflict of giants, wearing 
the trophies of a thousand victories. 

No greater delusion exists among the ambitious and 
aspiring youths, than that positions of honor and trust 



17 POSSIBILITIES. 

are t ho direct result of "wire-lMaMing^ and intercession of 
friends, bringing to bear influences in their .behalf; and 
that when secured, are enviable, easy places to fill. 
To those whose knowledge takes them into the reality 
of the volunm of responsibilities, connected with any 
signal advancement or promotion on the line of duty, 
it not only signifies an additional execution of, 
the newly acquired obligations, but an advanced re- 
sponsibility is implied in all the sub-ordiriate lines, 
down to the very beginning. 

The most commendable however, of all kinds of 
ambition, considered in its many sided forms, is, per- 
haps that in which the principal has never mani- 
fested any consciousness of any existing ambition out- 
side of a conscientious discharge of the duties and ob- 
ligations of life. Where the efforts have been the re- 
sult of the spontaneous outgrowth of the soul — being 
lost to self and any motive other than the sublime ren- 
dition of service. From such exalted minds, we oft- 
en see exhibited the most humble and sympathetic na- 
tures. Their benignity proverbial, their humanity is 
of the broad and liberal type, and their charity mag- 
nanimous. 

Should there then exist other ambition than the 
faithful performance of daily duties? That which is 
a result: the reward of faithful stewardship. The in- 
signia of nature's noblemen. The acme of human at- 
tainments. 

The question overlying all others is correct appli- 
cation, natural adjustment of conditions and environ- 
ments and cranial endowments to the complicated 
machinery with which we, in our probationary state, 
may be called upon to adjudicate. 



CHAPTER III. 
EDUCATION. 

J|he term education, might be readily defined by a 
"High School" pupil, and a "Freshman" in 
answering would not manifest much hesitancy; but, 
like the whooping-cough and measles, this phase chief- 
ly belongs to youth and infantile age. In generic terms 
of course we mean knowledge; much of which, however, 
we are frequently unable to reduce to practical ser- 
vice, and under such circumstances, it signifies not only 
a loss of time and money, but an incumbrance upon 
the system both enervating and useless. 

Not deprecating scholastic accomplishments, but rath- 
er estimating our institutions of learning in the light 
or requirements of the advanced age in which we live, 
which, naturally conducted, are worthy of our emulation. 

But the general trend of our schools — from the pri- 
mary management up, is one which engenders a weak, 
vacillating, physical structure — mental dyspepsia and 
nerve prostration; wholly incapacitating the human 
structure for the stern realities necessary in discharg- 
ing the duties of life. Blood, bone, muscle and tem- 
perament are of more intrinsic value to us individually, 
or as a nation, than all the classics, and when sacri- 
ficed for the sake of keeping in the mad race for cus- 
tom, the result can be nothing else than an inferior race 
of people. 

This "Higher Education" hobby may be effectual for 
the greatest good in cases where the elementary char- 
acteristics manifest capability of distinction, indicating 



19 POSSIBILITIES. 

Bpecific endowments; then, combined with an evenly 
balanced physical organization of the requirements ne- 
cessary one can complete the course, with perhaps 
an assurance of a place; but even then, the surplus among 
"professions" is so great, competition so close, and the 
practical necessity for such service so uncertain, that 
the chances are old age would overtake him before a 
competency could be secured. 

There are however, three qualifications which if well 
developed will greatly augment the probabilities of suc- 
cessful education. The peculiar conformation of brain 
development, will with unerring certainity indicate the 
natural ability for life's duties, and in what direction 
to look for cultivation. Strange as this may sound, en- 
vironments and associations may so influence, that the 
natural endowments are never realized — adverse cir- 
cumstances will be the consequent result. The first ru- 
diment natural talent having been neglected, that there 
can be no individual education, is evident. 

Having inherited the first principle some cardinal 
point must be. in view, the one most promising. 

Merely going to New-York— without an end in view, 
{simply to go there,) is analogous to a collegiate educa- 
tion without a determination upon a specific avocation. 
It is a species of "boarding-house" knowledge, but it is 
no home. 

A large number of writers seem to infer an analogy 
between "splitting rails/' "the tailor bench 1 ' and the 
"tow path," to the Presidency — and avoiding the real 
attribute in the case: the compliance with the great 
law of practical service and a faithful performance of 
the duties that lie nearest the hand to reach them. 
Abraham Lincoln's early education, allied to the removal 
of the primeval forest and the subjugation of the wild 
unbroken wastes into fruitful fields for the habitations 
of man instilled into his very being the embodiment 



EDUCATION. 20 

of greatness— faithfulness in that which is "least." 
Maturing under the same vicissitudes which unfold 
the petals of the tiniest flower, and reverberates the 
echos of Time's requiem among the majestic branches 
of the towering oak; educated in sympathy, experi- 
enced in humble circumstances, and an equivalent ren- 
dered by his own hands; graduated in Nature's labor- 
atory. The correlation could embrace nothing more 
magnanimous than a name perpetuated by honor and 
distinctions unsurpassed by any man, living or dead? 

Specific cases could be adduced from all ages. The 
past has produced no dignataries who have evaded 
the relation of use, and the faculty of imparting this 
indispensable qualification of education to their fellow 
men, which lies in the experience of possessing more 
than metaphysical theory. 

The great mass of our young people at our insti- 
tutions of learning by virtue of inherited means, or 
aspiration of wealthy parentage, realize after life's bat- 
tles have begun — that ambition for athletic distinc- 
tions, rowing and football are incomparable to muscle 
acquired by another class whose applied means of in- 
dustry necessary to maintain their educational career 
was earned by personal effort in earnest toil. Sawing 
wood is better education than college gymnastics. 
Teaching, mechanics, manual labor— work of any kind 
and the necessity of earning their own way at inter- 
vals, after a common school education, is a condition 
most promising of ultimate success; in fact the great 
exception is to find one above the common crowd, 
who has not relied upon his own hands for present at- 
tainments, and holds his diploma as an emblem of 
work rather than a vesture of distinction. 

Possessing a college diploma and selling Sewing Ma- 
chines, or some such nominal employment signifies an 
appalling mistake. A thousand times better be a dili- 



21 POSSIBILITIES. 

gent laborer or ordinary mechanic, than an educated 
man without understanding. Much of this superfluous 
encroachment upon life's most propitious period could 
be wholly avoided, if, in the outset, we were fully a- 
ware of our own natural endowments) even only one 
n dura! gift cultivated, would assure the discharge of 
assumed duties, pleasant, natural, and a continual source 
of inspiration. Such a condition engenders content- 
ment with the conditions of life. Such a person might 
be lacking even in the elementary principles of scho- 
lastic knowledge, yet he would have an education far 
superior to the classics in all the affinities which na- 
ture has alloted for his particular use — utilizing every 
item as an individual acquirement, and entering in- 
to all of the intricate details of life as a part of him- 
self; entirely dispensing with the clashing vexations 
which present unsurmountable difficulties to undertak- 
ings without a native pre-disposition toward a given 
pursuit. 

This may be considered as a far-fetched idea — or an 
antiquated foible, yet we have to admit that Nature keeps 
a one-priced counter. There are no special bargains at re- 
duced prices. Her bar admits of no change of venue. 
No appeals. No demur. Her decrees are never revers- 
ed. Her executions are never stayed. Habeas Corpus 
proceedings are never recognized; and whoever substi- 
tutes an artificial education for natural requirements, 
will pay the penalty to the "uttermost farthing." 

Precocious children, inspired by undue measurers of 
our modern school system to rush through mental 
work at a rate so much greater than the maturing of 1 
bone, muscle, and the physical functions can attain 
nothing more than intellectual mediocrity — producing 
a generation of vapid affectation, and one which will 
never advance beyond the limit of school graduation. A 
generation which will be supplanted by the vigorous 



EDUCATION. 22 

country products that have never been considered "smart" 
children, but who have the hardihood to endure con- 
tinued and complex studies, and practice them until 
advanced age. 

The anomaly between the two is discernable by prac- 
tical methods: the fictitious prides himself in dis- 
playing credentials, adopting an ^novation in his 
family name by styling himself "J. Franklin Jones," 
covetous of, and often resorting to questionable measures 
to secure "degrees" and "titles," and with these equip- 
ments he sallies forth hunting for business. This interpre- 
tated by his own demonstration signifies: "I have grad- 
uated; my diploma entitles me to practice, school has 
been dismissed, there is no necessity of continued exer- 
tion for accomplishments, I shall take my ease:" He is 
satisfied. These, are tenants, not landlords. The clerks, 
not proprietors. Followers, not leaders. 

The "stock in trade" of the educated is altogether an- 
other article. The face portrays education, culture, a- 
bility as infallible as the plate mirror reflects what 
is before it. The educated man's presence is an in- 
spiration to a crowd of perfect strangers, and is recog- 
nized as such without an introduction. His passport 
can be neither assumed nor affected. His educational 
"commencements" are a glimmer of light among the 
shadows; the paths of sacrifice and suffering are all , 
familiar to his step, crossing the "Rubicon" has been 
his supremest lesson. The midnight hour has found 
him in solitude alone with his thoughts: thoughts, 
sublime, giant-like, God-like, to be subdued and breath- 
ed into our human passions for successive generations, 
speaking enchanting words of Immortality; arousing 
our slumbering capabilities into thought — unconscious 
of any endowments, with a humble, childlike inno- 
cence inquiring into the unfathomable depths between 
the shores of here, and hereafter. 



23 POSSIBILITIES. 

There is much difficulty in the short space allotted 
for this subject to make it plain and to be fully un- 
derstood, and lest the import of this chapter be con- 
strued as being antagonistic to the higher education 
and college curriculum, it will be well to recapitulate 
the theory advanced is: The brain is a struc- 
ture; its functions act in the same degree of 
completeness as an organization, on exactly the same 
principles as do the physical organs consummating a 
perfect entirety. 

To become the "perfect man" as deduced by An- 
thropology it is just as necessary to conform to a 
specific regimen for the mental structure, as it is to 
observe hygiene in the practical uses of life. 

The crudest novice would revolt against a practice 
of not allowing organic functions time to assimilate, 
digest and eliminate nourishment provided by nature 
for the maintenance of the bodily stueture; yet this 
is precisly the situation, deplorable as it really is, as 
generally practiced in modern pedagogy; resulting in 
broken down brain cells, by not allowing blood, res- 
piration and muscle time to recuperate this wonder- 
ful combination of individualized organs and faculties. 

The result is emphatic and conclusive— demonstrat- 
ed by investigating the early history of all persons oc- 
cupying stations above the average: their early life has 
been among the hills and health of farm life, or, they 
have been compelled by their own exertion to labor 
and develop, and furnish physical material out of which 
this mental architect has constructed the wonderful 
complement, and marvel of all ages — man. 

Not long since, a newspaper article credited to the 
pen of one of the most estimable millionaires of our 
day, Henry Clews, relative to this subject was filed 
away, and in closing this chapter it will be repro- 
duced. 



EDUCATION. 24 

"In order to become rich, the young man just start- 
ing in life should choose that occupation or avocation 
for which he has the most decided preference. Many 
a man has his nose to the grindstone, so to speak, 
throughout life simply because he has chosen, or his 
relatives and friends have chosen for him, some bus- 
iness or profession for which he is not adapted, and 
which he finds is not congenial to him, while in a 
career for which nature and education had fitted him 
he might not only be happy and successful, but make 
his mark as a star of the first magnitude. The Good 
Book tells us that whatever our hands find to do we 
should do it with our might, but a young man is 
not inclined to do in that way things that he does 
not like. But whatever young men do voluntarily 
from choice they, as a rule, do well. It is therefore 
very important for a young man just starting in life 
to be sure that the calling in which he engages is 
thoroughly congenial to him, and one in which he 
can put forth his best efforts with the greatest enthusi- 
asm and delight. The utility of a collegiate education for 
success in business is now being largely debated. As 
the college curriculum and training stand at present, 
the ordinary course is not in general calculated to 
make a good business man. It is erroneously estimated 
by some people as a kind of substitute for business 
training in the earlier years of the young man's life. 

There can be no greater mistake in the beginning of 
a business career. It is in many instances not only a 
hindrance, but absolutely fatal to success." 



25 POSSIBILITIES. 



CHAPTER IV. 
OCCUPATION. 



Bince nature* has ordained that we shall work, it 
becomes a question of much import to us, what 
is best adapted to our capabilities. 

The methods upon which we determine a life call- 
ing are so rarely based on scientific principles that 
error and disappointment are looked upon as the com- 
mon destiny of mankind. No greater delusion exists 
than to imagine that by the same culture, we may 
step up and occupy the places of the "seers." 

No amount of training can create within us other 
than inherent qualities. 

The sooner we realize that this big world is peo- 
pled with just common persons, and, for a moment only 
we have a being in this strange human existence, and 
then are a part of the mystic beyond the sooner we 
will appreciate the necessity of applying diligence in 
the direction best suited to our natural conditions. 

The relation of the mental faculties to the or- 
ganic functions is so intimate, that employment not 
in harmony with the intellectual endowments result 
in a derangement of the entire structure, and life 
becomes a languid, spiritless existence. 

The most casual observer would know better than 
to select a Clydesdale horse for the race track: a point- 
er to hunt bear: a jersey cow for beef: a Lion for a 
household pet: Bass-wood for an ax handle: Syca- 
more for shingles: Gum-wood for rails, or Pine for car 



OCCUPATION. 26 

wheels. The relation to use is beautifully exempli- 
fied in our soils; heavy clay for grass, black loam 
for corn, alluvial soil for wheat, gravelly land for fruit 
and all kinds for timber, which may be considered 
as a synonym of man. 

The selection of business or occupation, adverse to 
our mental faculties would cause a discrepency as in- 
congruous as any referred to. In comparison,the tem- 
perament determines the character of the wood, and 
the kind of soil, in the selection to use, it can 
be made an affinity, or the source of the bitterest 
antipathy. 

Men who have amassed colossal fortunes by their 
own effort, or, those eminently successful in any av- 
ocation, will invariably be found to have an abnor- 
mal cranial development in the locality of the ruling 
group of mental organs. It is generally conceded that 
this abnormal faculty, be it in any group predomi- 
nant, will modify and control all of the restrain- 
ing emotions and propensities, rendering them imper- 
vious to its influence — the sequence being a develop- 
ment distinguished for only one specific outline of 
execution. Under these conditions it would be an in- 
voluntary act to comply with natural inclinations, be- 
cause the immoderate activity of this one leading fac- 
ulty, so influences all others that they become sub- 
servient to the promptings of this General in tac- 
tics, and manifest no disposition to investigate or 
propagate other measures. Persons so constituted rare- 
ly make a mistake in their life calling— simply because 
there is one faculty abnormaly developed, all others 
coincide not daring to enter a protest, or even claim 
a possession by birth-right. A brain so organized and 
constructed, could hardly realize an existence outside 
of this particular element, and would defy all at- 
tempts of education or application to foreign subjects. 



27 POSSIBILITIES. 

These prodigies too, are not only always weak, but 
often entirely deficient in other faculties — so-much so 
that frequently they are unable to carry"" on an in- 
telligent conversation upon general topics. 

But the human family as a class, are more har- 
moniously developed; and while there are very few 
brain structures that practical Mental Science would 
not change, to produce a perfect adjustment of all the 
faculties, those capable of the best culture are so 
often influenced by antagonistic tendencies of emo- 
tive elements, that life is often spent in a vain en- 
deavor to ascertain a true and harmonious relation 
to its use. Under such a mental development, it is 
an utter impossibility to choose by simple instinct, 
what would be the best occupation for life's service. 

How much more so, then, would be the experi- 
ment in various channels, fritting away time in hope- 
less misunderstandings and intolerable conditions for 
something never attainable, and, never applicable even 
if secured. Deplorable as this state may appear, it 
is nevertheless true: that the majority, the large ma- 
jority of mankind experiment with this awful reality, 
existence — and realize when the time of probation is 
far spent, that they have missed the "heights and 
depths, the lengths ancj breadths" in the pyramid of 
character, accomplishment and usefulness. 

Nature's works are all specialties. No soil or climate 
produces all of the cereals. Adaptation is the law of the 
Universe. The rich river bottoms in Ohio and Ill- 
inois have produced bountiful crops of corn for forty 
or fifty years in succession, the sediment left by the 
annual overflow creates a perpetual fertilizer, and there 
is no diminution in the yield. Whole counties in 
Georgia are devoted to watermelon culture. The pro- 
ducts of vast sections in Mississippi and Alabama is 
only cotton. Rice fields of Louisiana afford but one 



OCCUPATION. 28 

specific crop. The valleys and the glades of Califor- 
nia are phenomenal for prolific crops of fruit. No 
one would be so presumptious as to attempt to re- 
verse this order of natural adabtability, and plant corn 
in the swamps of Louisiana, cotton in Michigan, or 
potatoes in Florida sand. Apropos to this incongru- 
ity is the occupation of man —mechanics who ought 
'to be merchants, merchants who ought to practice 
medicine, doctors who ought to be preachers, preach- 
ers who ought to be rail- road men, farmers who 
ought to study Theology — and occasionally one wear- 
ing gospel habiliments who should be in the Pen- 
itentiary. Mere animal instinct is blind to rea- 
son and not capable of learning by experience; 
neither is it susceptible of improvement by practice; 
hence these very common failures arise by not hav- 
ing a correct understanding of the relation of the 
reasoning faculties and intellectual endowments to 
the spinal cord and nerve rootlets, which pervade 
the entire body, acting automatically with the dev- 
elopment of the bodily functions. 

The brain, which presides over these nerve centers 
and simultaneously blends the bodily structure into 
perfect unison, has a cerebral conformation indicative 
of peculiar traits of character, which, when analyzed 
should enable even a novice to select the right man 
for the right place. Especially should every person 
know his own status by a critical delineation of his 
brain structure based upon Mental Science; knowing 
this, and conforming to its teachings constitute the 
elements which assure the normal, legitimate grati- 
fication of all the members of our being. Knowing 
ourselves, we are then prepared to meet our fellow- 
man on a higher plane — to adjust his irregularities 
with the same degree of confidence as would be used 
in the selection of soils and climate for specific crops, 



29 POSSIBILITIES. 

and with equal certainty be apprised of bis ability 
to untold the supreme issues of life. 

No occupation or profession is held in* higher es- 
teem, or worthy of mo?*e Commendation than the 
christian ministry. Parochial duties bring out the 
brightest, broadest, sublimest pathos of a human soul: 
inspiring, ennobling, culturing. Inexperienced aspi- 
ration influenced by personal contact with such a, 
spirit, would incline toward the same dignified and 
exalted position. Without a natural endowment, the 
preparation might be made, and the required quali- 
fication secured; but the heights would never be 
sealed, the inspiration of the voiceless valley of si- 
lence would never be felt, the hallowed lingering 
fragrance of Infinite Love, where common experience 
and ordinary sympathy fail would never reach the 
trysting- place of a bereaved soul; there would be no 
''communion of saints." The inevitable result would 
be the oft' repeated sentence, "he is a very good man, 
but no preacher ." This means much — not only to the 
individual, but for the generations that are, and those 
that are to come. The pulsations of this influence 
will live for ages. How necessary then, that this na- 
ture should combine all of the faculties required in 
this high and holy calling. 

With little less favor is the legal profession consid- 
ered. With what assiduous diligence does the young 
man apply himself to fathom the rules and regula- 
tions of the code of statutory enactments. . The natural 
faculties soon demonstrate, that lack of the essential 
group of cerebral organs admits features in practical 
use, entirely foreign to the case and which are taken 
advantage of by opposing coucil. The time has elaps- 
ed before motion is made for appeal. Demur is 
overruled because of error. Motion for appeal is too 
late for Docket entry. Habeas Corpus proceedings are 



OCCUPATION. 30 

filed where there is no jurisdiction. The bill of ex- 
ceptions go by default. Issues are alwa} r s taken to 
the courts ruling, and so on until the practical sys- 
tem of jurisprudence has been to him a dismal failure. 
The salient features that his profession required were 
lacking in his cerebral organization. Emotional aspi- 
ration, without a knowledge of inherent qualities, led 
him into an experiment much too expensive for life's 
brief span and one easily avoided had he have 
known himself. 

We often hear the assertion: "the country could 
not have got along without such and such a man, 
say: Clay, Webster or Lincoln; and yet, perhaps in 
the same town where such leaders lived, there may 
have been half a dozen men, who only needed an 
equal opportunity to develop, on the same line-, to 
equal ability," 

No situation could be more deplorable, or cause more 
chagrin and humiliation than advancement to a po- 
sition where inability renders one paralyzed and im-< 
potent. Favorable circumstances and proxy, may oc- 
casionally place tools in the hands of over-zealous 
aspirants, but history writes them down as ignomin- 
ious failures in the use of them. 

Great opportunities are Nature's automatic doors — 
and, as a rule, merit adjudicates the entrance. 

The acme of human aggrandizement is to be an ex- 
pert in our chosen occupation. The sequence of the 
battle of life depends upon the loyalty of the pri- 
vates. Millions of us are required in the ranks: very 
few, at the head of the column as officers; advance- 
ment will be, by an outward recognition of some in 
herent quality. 

To know in the start, our natural endowments is of 
paramount importance. This knowledge is incompar- 
able to all other attainments. 



;U POSSIBILITIES. 

Character will differ from character in the eternal 
years, according to the foundation upon which we 
build. No character can develop into harmonious at- 
tainments, unless then? be perfect unison between the 
brain structure and bodily functions and there can be 
no such unity unless we comply with Nature's law 
by employing her gifts in their invincible channels. 
To miss this natural aptitude, and go through life, 
encountering difficulties, burdens and evil forbodings, 
is a thralldom worse than abject slavery. Hence it 
behooves every person in the very outset, to sat- 
isfy himself beyond a reasonable doubt as to the nat- 
ural traits of character. Even though much of life has 
been spent, to be conscious of a perfect entirety with 
the combined characteristics of our being, is worth all 
the etfoit that will be required to adjust our meth- 
ods to the rhythm of Nature's music, and is the 
only absolute guarantee to that enviable experience: 
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall 
make you free." 



POSSESSIONS. 32 



CHAPTER V. 
POSSESSIONS. 



Jvs generally inferred, possession relates to finan- 
^ cial values of property, inherited from ancestral 
heirship, or acquired by the laws of commerce. 

The term as applied here will be used only sig- 
nifying those inherent qualities bestowed by natural 
inheritance — natural traits of character and physio- 
logical possessions, without a consideration of any 
money value whatever. 

This living body, elemental force, vitalizing power 
and coalition of mind and material, is a problem 
over which metaphysicians and philosophers have 
stumbled in all ages and left unexplained. 

That the intellectual faculties are, by some im- 
penetrable process inseparably blended with the cor- 
poreal being is an undisputed fact, but the Infinite 
mystery of their spontaneous consciousness, belongs 
to the realms of Divine Volition. 

Temperament means physiological quality. A man 
may be of full stature, and possess a brain of nat- 
ural, or even abnormal size, and yet be lacking in 
the respiratory organs, nerve tissues, blood corpus- 
cles, or low in inherited organic constitution. A thou- 
sand and one things can preclude his advance in the 
race where the rule: u a sound mind in a sound 
body" results in phenomenal success. 

The variations in character result from cerebral or- 
gans, manifesting their inclinations and involuntari- 
ly controlling the whole bodily structure. 



38 POSSIBILITIES, 

The sublime melodies which incite us to joy, or 
Booth US in sorrow are all produced from but eight 
notes and their variations. 

We have in our language over eighty thousand 
words; these, employed in the multiplicity of uses, 
represent our literature in History, Science, Classics 
and commerce; resulting in a voluminous magnitude 
almost inconceivable to the mind of man. These 
books of wide diffusion of subject matter; classic sen- 
tences, theology, ethics, scientific explorations and 
comedies and tragedies of human experience are all 
adduced from words constructed by the use of the 
twenty-six letters of our alphabet. In like manner 
the distribution of the variously diversified conditions 
of mankind are the direct attribute of forty three 
distinct and classified organs of the brain. • This is 
a natural heritage, the birth-right of every human 
being. The only equal possession vouchsafed to all 
classes. Thes% organs are as susceptible of reduc- 
tion to practical uses, as the scale in music, or the 
alphabet to words and sentences. 

The first rudiment of education belongs to the 
knowledge of our relation to our Creator, whose im- 
age we bear. Character should be read as we read 
books; and applied on business principles. The traits 
of character crop out in every thing we do — walk- 
ing, shaking hands, wearing the hat, crossing the 
street, buying goods, paying our debts, attitude, every 
peculiar move and gesture is a tell-tale of the hid- 
den workings of the brain force, and can be distin- 
guished as readily as discord in the harmony of mu- 
sic, and with certainity as absolute as the mathema- 
tician computes three times six. Then there is an 
infallible method of judging character by the work 
we do; weak and vacillating, strong and courageous, 
honor or cowardice, are all stamped with the seal of 



POSSESSIONS. 34 

our execution. 

Millions of books are on the shelves which create 
a wonder how the publisher ever paid the printer? 
Full of words of course, but meaningless. Others 
may be bright and entertaining with the pronoun 
"I," the star of the arena. Some with titles long 
enough to comprise the selection of an entire libra- 
ry. Then there is the abstract volumn: what dif- 
ference would it make if all of its suppositions were 
verified? Mere conjecture. Presently we pick up a 
volumn of modest title that deals directly with the 
every-day conditions of men — read it through, cap- 
tivated; re-read it, and lay it down with regret that 
it closed so soon. Possession of books, not only de- 
monstrate the brain possessions of the author, but in 
our selection we bring out our own intellectual char- 
acter, assimilation and affinities. 

"Uncle Tom's Cabin," the most popular book pub- 
lished within the memory of any man living, reach- 
es all classes, by virtue of truthful application of fac- 
ulties fully developed in sympathy, human-nature, 
veneration, conscientiousness, constructiveness, and har- 
monious, domestic traits in the writer — forming with 
the reader, an indissoluble compact with like organs, 
and irresistibly captivating the most sublime concep- 
tions of the emotions. 

The author of Hamlet, like the bubbling mountain 
spring gushes forth in crystal sprays and in our eag- 
erness to quench our thirst we take great prolonged 
draughts, without a thought of its source, complete- 
ly hidden. 

Charles Dickens plays upon the fancy, and pro- 
duces an aroma likening unto savory from palatable 
viands; but in four pages of Thomas Carlyle's "Hero 
Worship," is contained more real soul food than in all 
of his writings. 



POSSIBILITIES. 

Darwin's, "Descent of Man, 1 ' "Origin of the Spe- 
ci^s/' etc, are models in scientific research^ but would 
have second choice, by ordinary intellects, placed in 
a library side by side with "Ben Hur." 

Canon Farrar's "Early days of Christianity," and 
"Life of Christ," require greater incentives to study 
than do John Wesley's writings on kindred subjects. 

Goethe revolutionized Germany; his "Faust" was 
an unquestioned model of literary genius, yet it for 
years remained dormant, outside of his own province. 

Luther's writings established active, progressive light 
of the world, without any pretense toward literary 
attainments. 

Few men there are, who have set down and read 
the chapters in "Josephus," consecutively until fin- 
ished, and yet Josephus should be found in every 
library. 

So it will ever be; the same intellectual endow- 
ments that create the inspiration to write millions 
of books, lesser developed, will create a following 
in reading. This, like all other organic faculties is 
only valuable as it is related to use; this criterion 
however, is safe to follow: leading traits manifested 
in writing, or those subjects perused with animation 
and delight, are the leading qualities pertaining to 
the mind — brain possessions. Out of this brain struc- 
ture flow the inclinations or aversions to the innu- 
merable avenues of human ability. Not less marked 
are the impressions of mind, by personal contact; the 
"silent monitor," intuitive knowledge, resulting in in- 
stantaneous impressions on first meeting strangers, is 
also one of the properties of brain power. The in- 
voluntary judgment formed, or impressions thus made 
will invariably be right. Subsequent modifications of 
the first impression, will, in the light of continued 
acquaintance prove erroneous without an exception. 



POSSESSIONS. 36 

This inexplicable faculty of mind power may be 
greatly diversified. A person having little ability to 
appreciate the sublime may pass through life hardly 
realizing any intuitive presentments. This deficiency 
however, will not preclude a successful delineation of. 
human nature upon practical measures; indeed it should 
be more of a stimulus to acquire what science has 
placed at our disposal, thus substituting as far as pos- 
sible, acquired knowledge in the place of more fully 
developed natural endowments. 

Very few exceptions will be found among average 
intellects that are not aware of the presence and 
prerogatives of this unfathomable mystery, enumer- 
ated among the brains possessions. The only attempt 
at solution would be an attribute of the Infinite in 
man: "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given 
to every man to profit withal." 

The inestimable value of being able to classify 
people as we, meet them — in an absolute degree of 
certainity, as regards their true character and natural 
proclivities can not be computed; and the possession 
of this one faculty, well developed, is a competency 
of itself, capable of practical application every day of 
our lives, with every person we meet, carrying us 
further into the vast and boundless mysteries of hu- 
manity, and forming a closer relationship with the 
great Architect of the Universe. 

The fundamental principle involved is, however, 
that we each one have full and complete knowledge 
of our own natural traits and propensities, and be 
thus provided with a shield to protect the weak, 
augment the useful, and completely control the whole 
organization of mental possessions. This knowledge 
reduced to practice, would obviate the large part 
of listless, lifeless effort now so prominent in all the 
trades and professions. Out of the forty three, which 



,;: POSSIBILITIES. 

of the group are the oites to cultivate? Which of 
the ones, properly cultivated will unfold^ knd ful- 
fil] the reality of my being? Which are the ones 
capable of bearing "much fruit" — the ones that will 
make life complete? To know the ones to restrain, 
to prevent a fungus growth? These, and many other 
questions enter into this momentous problem, and 
should receive our careful deliberations. No more 
beautiful admonition could be written in this con- 
nection than, that old analogy upon the members of 
one body: "But covet earnestly the best gifts: and 
yet shew I unto you a more excellent way." 



CHAPTER VI. 
HOME. 



|B|pome, and its influences not only mould the char- 
s3=ai acter of individuals, but the power and prosperity 
of nations depend upon the sanctity of home. 

It is a common instinct — shared alike by all animate 
creation, and also an attribute of the highest intel- 
lectual organization. A necessity for the perpetuation 
of the species, and the source of greatest happiness, 
or cause of darkest despair. 

No where else will man develop into true man- 
hood. Under no other conditions will woman unfold 
the beauties of womanhood, wifehood, motherhood. 

As pure and holy as sacred incense will be the love 
and virtue instilled into the child heart under the 
gracious endearments engendered by the true home 
life. Temptations and evil associations may allure 
unsophisticated innocence into indigencies deleterious 



HOME. 38 

to both mental qualities and moral attitude, but the 
"still small voice" in moments of silent meditations 
will admonish conscientiousness of impending dan- 
ger; and the remembrance of a pure home life, will 
carry the heart back to the simple child teachings 
of perfect obedience. 

The Divine Decree "It is not good for man to be 
be alone," places the home, and monogamous mar- 
riage among the provisions for our happiness here, 
and forms associations which bind us inseparably to 
the spiritual hereafter. 

Sad and deplorable as the fact appears in all its 
bearings, this institution, with all its holy inspira- 
tion, bears across its threshhold the shadows of dis- 
appointment and despair. Perverted instinct and mod- 
ern culture, can rob it of all its prestige, beauty and 
loveliness. The barren plains and desert waste of per- 
verted, blighted, domestic relations has no compari- 
son among the things of Earth — nor Hell. 

The modern idea of some, childless homes, is as desti- 
tute of the true spirit of our being, as pernicious, and 
as vicious as lawless habits are to our moral integrity. 

The infelicities of domestic relations has become 
a menace to our civilazition, and imported ideas of 
foreign libertines has developed a surprising support 
among our fashionable circles. 

This structure can, to a certain degree, withstand 
any thing except deception. Truth and honor gain- 
sayed, and confidence betrayed, leaves the heart dead 
and pulseless, and the situation nauseating and ut- 
terly damnable; beyond a hope of recovery. The tri- 
bunal leading up to Pilate's judgment seat, is the 
only analogy we have, to the excruciating pain of a 
confiding soul when the light first dawns upon it, that 
it has been deceived by duplicity in the holy rites 
of matrimony. 



39 POSSIBILITIES, 

Different and adverse traits of character, manifest 
by temperament, may be borne, but should be avoid- 
ed. The greatest good and supremest happiness that 
will grow "brighter and brighter unto the perfect 
day/' is vouchsafed only to those who comply with 
the natural laws of our organic being. 

The cerebral formations differ as much as the phy- 
siognomy of the face. A perfect union can be con- 
summated only upon such a basis as a complement, 
one, with the other. The abnormal, or excessively 
developed organs of character should be balanced by 
a union with an opposite brain conformation. The 
weak ones would thus be strengthened, and the pro- 
pensities belonging to the animal instinct be restrain- 
ed. Strict conformity to this rule for three genera- 
tions would result in a new, and improved race of 
people. 

To abandon the law of reason, and be led by 
mere emotive impulse, into this sacred relationship, 
whose influence is to rule the generations that are to 
be is not always a volitive act, without mis-givings. 

The limited relations of a large majority of our 
young people are so circumscribed, that a more lib- 
eral privilige of choice is an impossibility; hence, 
they, as the only alternative, make the best of sur- 
rounding circumstances with a consciousness in the 
very onset, that the companionship of the love un- 
written in the heart, has no companionable affinity 
in the life partner, who should understand the lan- 
guage of expression before a word was uttered. 

Such unions form a great part of the inhabitants 
of our home§; and where the moral faculties pre- 
dominate over animal propensities, may result in ex- 
periences closely allied to human happiness, but 
such affiliations can never bring out the best there 
is in a being. 



HOME. 40 

Matrimonial /'Journals" as conducted, are question- 
able schemes for adventurers— as they might be con- 
ducted, would be prolific benefactors. 

The only methodical practice applicable to the 
question at issue is knowledge upon a scientific ba- 
sis, easily attained, and a guarantee of personal 
Baity and future happiness. In connection with this 
phase of the subject we might quote a verse from 
Frere's works': 

" With kine and horses, Kurnsf we proceed 

By reasonable rules, and choose a breed 
For profit and increase, at any price; 

Of a sound stock, without defect or vice. 
But, in the daily matches that we make, 

The price is every thing: for money's sake, 
Men marry: women are in marriage given 

The churl or ruffian, that in wealth has thriven, 
May match his offspring with the proudest race: 

Thus every thing is mitfd, noble and base! 
If then in outward manner, form, and mind, 

You find us a degraded, motley kind, 
Wonder no more, my friend! the cause is plain, 
And to lament the consequence is vain ." 
A ship may be perfect in all its construction except 
a rudder, which would render it useless; so, marriage, 
the home relation, is so correlated to all the other 
organic requirements that its consummation should em- 
ploy our earnest solicitude. The first question which 
enters into this momentous transaction is our own 
endowments; knowing then, the traits of character 
that need strengthening, and the propensities to re- 
strain, we are enabled to select the character, which, 
combined, will form the nearest ally to an entirety. 
This, being generally understood, would ; result in a 
mutual recognition ot this immutible law by both 
sexes, the sequence of which would be happy homes, 



•11 POSSIBILITIES. 

bright children, and an equable adjustment of the 
discrepancies of human nature. ^ 

Home! The rippling laughter of innocent childhood, 
sympathy in sorrow, consolation in bereavement, the 
tremulous blessing from the Grand Sire's lips, the 
prayer at the Mother's knee, all bring up memories 
of sacred reverence, that will never be supplanted 
until Heaven's welkin shall ring out with sublime 
melodies, transporting the redeemed soul to the home 
where the "many mansions be." 



CHAPTER VII. 
POSSIBILITIES. 



ISndowed with normal mental faculties, by persis- 
*==!l tent effort it is possible, to become proficient 
in any theoretical science; but without a specific 
brain structure, adapted to its required adjustment 
to practical uses, it would be an utter impossibility 
to become eminently successful. 

The world is full of half-won races: half-ploughed 
fields: half-fought battles: half-directed effort: half- 
applied talent. 

Writers frequently attempt an explanation of the 
invisible power that holds an audience spell-bound 
in the hearing of a Webster, Clay, Beecher, Talmadge 
or Moody and attribute this inspiration to super- 
natural magnetism, These men, like all others who 
fill the pages of history, controlling the popular hosts 
by leadership, or enrolling themselves as public ben- 
efactors, have demonstrated nothing but an awful 
earnestness in their work. 



POSSIBILITIES. 42 

Not one person in ten millions, does his very best 
under all circumstances, and, as a sequence he fails to bring 
out the hidden recesses of thought or executive abil- 
ity. The crystal spring at the mountain side, by con- 
tinual dipping out, becomes clearer, purer and more 
invigorating in exhaustless quantities; so, these broken 
down brain cells of thought should be eliminated 
from the system as excrementitious matter by replace- 
ment of new, and advanced effort. Informal and com- 
mon place affairs of life, afford no excuse for yield- 
ing to passive means. The spring could be filled up 
and become useless, but the source would remain the 
same and supply other outlets; so the mental struc- 
ture may, by disuse become atrophied, and nature's 
provision for sublime reason be perverted into mere 
animal propensity. 

Since the days of Hippocrates mankind has been 
the recipient of remedial agencies for the alleviation 
of pain and disease, until the modern Materia Med- 
ica employ in its practice Alteratives, Alkalies, Acids, 
Anodynes, Anthelmintics, Antiperiodics, Antispasmod- 
ics, Astringents, Carminatives, Cathartics, Caustics, 
Counter-irritants, Diaphoretics, Diuretics, Emitics, Ex- 
pectorants, Nervines, Sedatives, Tonics and a thous- 
and other classified specifics. Now it is possible for 
the inclination and will power to master the theory 
of all this science; to understand the administration 
of remedies in clinical practice, and withal, make a 
signal failure in applying a diagnosis or prognosis, 
of the practical issues necessary in a physician's daily 
life. It is not an infrequent occurance to see more 
nervousness and excitability exhibited by the surgeon, 
than ; is shown by the subject under the operator's 
knife. The incentives of life under such conditions, 
will not be worthy of the best effort. 

Nature requires a whole man, perfect in all parts, 



18 POSSIBILITIES. 

owe in which every move, decision and execution is 
a part of himself; the natural surgeon will step up 
and saw a man's leg off, with no more*" visible ag- 
itation than he would manifest in feeling the pulse, 
not by reason of a deficiency of sympathetic organs, 
hut because the executive, reasoning faculties would 
impress him with the imperative duty of immediate 
action as a means of permanent relief, 

The brain of the highly developed Mental Tem- 
perament would be very susceptible to the scholastic 
requisites of the medical profession; perhaps distin- 
guishing himself with class honors; but the every 
day contact with the vagaries of the morbid, quer- 
ulous delusions of patients in actual practice, would 
become exasperating to the last degree, and instead 
of being a source of animation and cheerfulness to 
the sick room, his presence would cast a shadow of 
gloom both depressing and viciating to the sensitive 
patient, precluding even a hope of recovery; and in 
common surgery his sufferings would be more acute 
than those endured by the subject. 

As efficacious as these various remedies may be 
in alleviating pain or curing disease, not even a 
novice would be so presumptuous as not to recognize 
a vast diffusion in their application, and be control- 
ed by the law of cause and effect. Administering 
a sedative where a stimulant is required would be 
apropos to working at the carpenter trade with a set 
of blacksmith tools, or stone cutting on a silver- 
smith's bench. 

Equally as marked are the divergencies of brain 
application, and just as impossible to overcome if co- 
erced out of, or retarded in their natural channel. 
There must be a perfect symmetry of all forces com- 
bined. Nothing is more unreasonable than to expect 
to surmount the obstacles incident to a busy life, 



POSSIBILITIES' 44 

and acquit ourselves with any degree of credit, with 
the consciousness of being handicapped or circum- 
scribed by the galling fetters of conditions antagon- 
istic to our finer sensibilities; or realize that there 
are hidden, latent powers, lying dormant in the ar- 
chives of our possibilities, capable of realizing the 
revelations combined in the greatest temple in the 
Universe, Human Intelligence, and not be able to 
apply this nature in communion and fellowship with 
the invisible, immeasurable, nature of all things 
which surround us. Human possibilities are unlimit- 
able, if the source is from the living spring of nat- 
ural adaptation. The natural course in the start, may 
like a mountain brook, wind around among the 
meadows, dancing over pebbly bottom, or in quiet pools 
or shady nooks, where the "kine may come to drink;" 
then its powers are controlled, and applied, resulting 
in the motive element of a hundred mills, operated by 
a thousand hands, manufacturing commodities for 
whole nations; utilized to the fullest capacity, but 
not diminished in any conceivable manner. On it 
flows, broader and wider until great ships are floating 
on its bossom, bearing the commerce of the world; then 
the solemn depths at even tide chant among the 
murmuring waves a quiet requiem and it is burried 
in the Ocean's immensity. Where the river ceases 
and ocean begins, no man can tell. 

What a wonderful analogy to man. Obstructions 
may materially change his course; but the same force 
will follow all of his meandering ways; trees may 
overhang the banks, but he will pass these shady 
places during the sunny part of the day; dams 
may be built across to impede his way; resulting in 
greater depth and a proclamation of unconquerable 
power voiced in the cataract below — effort may be 
applied taxing the abilit}' to the fullest extent; clear- 



45 POSSIBILITIES. 

er, purer and more forceful will be the realm of 
thought in its reeuperatory ministrations. 

The extension of sympathy, benignity, usefulness 
to our fellow-man returns with augmented powers 
equaled only by the amount imparted. Life under 
such circumstances and conditions could develop into 
nothing but a sublime blending of the inexplicable 
influences which speak out of the eternal silence, 
great lessons of commendation to the passive soul. 

Filled with this inspiration, the spirit would float 
on in majestic grandeur; the coffin, charnel house 
and mausoleum (like the dam, with the water at 
the mill) would change its course—from human to 
Divine; but the reality of life, reaching away out on 
tJhe billows of the great deep of Immortality, would 
never be conscious of the change from time to a 
vast and boundless Eternity. 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 46 



DELINEATION OF THE NATURAL TRAITS 
OF CHARACTER OF 



Examined and given by 
Jeduthun McLaughlin, 

On the day of 189. 



EXPLANATION. 

Phrenological charts are usually graded in numbers 
from 1 to 7, in a ratio as compared with the strength 
of the organ under consideration. We have abandon- 
ed numbers in our practice altogether, as they in- 
variably lead to confusion and misunderstandings. 

In this treatise the strength of character under 
examination will be designated by a pencil line in 
the margin at the left of each page, beginning the 
line at the top, at a point in the description com- 
pared to its greatest strength, and ending the pencil 
mark at the bottom of the page at the lowest point 
estimated in the cerebral formation. Every person is 
competent to judge then, the expediency of cultiva- 
ting or restraining any faculty. 



47 POSSIBILITIES. 

PHYSIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION.: 

[MOTIVE.] 

You have a rugged enduring .constitution, 
capable of hard work and endurance, en- 
joy action; a large surplus of viral energies are al- 
ways held in reserve, if emergencies required, could 
accomplish twice the ordinary amount of work. 

Will power is the predominant faculty in your or- 
ganization. The volitive faculties impart their tena- 
cious qualities to every fibre of the body. Disease, 
and even death are often overcome by indomitable 
will. Loss of sleep or missing a meal will not ma- 
terially affect this structure. Your mental faculties 
are capable of maintaining normal conditions under 
almost any circumstances; your organization is one 
indicative of volitive innervation and great personal 
strength of character pertaining to doing. Scholastic 
attainments would not afford activity for the breadth 
or copiousness necessary for the development of your 
practical executive ability. Hurry and excitement 
are not a part of your being; but you exercise a laud- 
able aspiration to be near the front ranks. 

(VITAL.) 

Your constitutional indications point 
toward a state of healthy blood circula- 
tion. Heart, Lungs, Liver and Stomach afford am- 
ple power to keep digestion, respiration and circula- 
tion up to their fullest capacity. The muscles, tis- 
sues and fibres are of that quality best adapted to 
fulfill an even uneventful life; can enjoy to the full- 
est extent the easy places. Not capable of endurance, 
fatigue and exposure. Well contented with time and 
place, and have no particular ambition to exchange 
this world for any other. The "mental organs are 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 48 

always subordinate to the physical functions. Bodily 
ease, comfort and enjoyment are the prevailing traits 
of character. The greatest delight of your life is the 
fact of living. So strong are these qualities, unless 
guarded by a vigilent moral group of faculties, the 
nature could easily be perverted into one of the 
most beastly and sensual, but by proper culture this 
quality of organization developes into one of the most 
useful, enjoyable and distinguished powers among men. 
(MENTAL.) 

The very finest elements of nature en- 
ter into your organic constitution. The 
aspirations, tastes and talents are far superior to 
those found in the ordinary walks of life. The in- 
tuitive and emotive faculties are the leading traits of 
character; a disposition of intense sensitiveness, sub- 
ject to the keenest suffering by uncongenial associa- 
tions, susceptible of exquisite joy in silent medita- 
tion; soars away out into the realms of sublime 
imagination and esthetic conception, apt to be mis- 
understood by the common elements constituting a 
work-a-day world. The natural tendency is to over 
exertion. Heavy muscular work should never be at- 
tempted. Keep the feet warm and dry, sleep eight- 
hours out of the twenty-four, abstain from all stim- 
ulants and narcotics. Never assume great responsi- 
bilities; hold a tight rein on the mental faculties, 
give the physical functions unlimited sway, recon- 
cile yourself to things as they are, adjudicating them 
to what they should be, leave to some one else. 
[NEUTRAL.] 

You are very unfortunate in your in- 
herited structure. Neither mental or phy- 
sical endowments are capable of the best results, life 



4W POSSIBILITIES. 

with you will be a warfare with the elements, your 
will power is not sufficient to protect ""you from evil; 
your vitality is subject to sudden collapse, you should 
never under any circumstances assume martial rela- 
tions, you should be well satisfied if your journey is 
made through the world without becoming a charge, 
and avoid bestowing upon earth a posterity that 
would be a .menace to society and a curse to them- 
selves. You should place yourself in a position sub- 
ject to dictation of a moral upright person, and 
then be obedient to the very letter. Association with 
religious influences will do much toward restraining 
your natural proclivities. Evil companions should be 
.shunned as a pestilence and poison: low company, 
drinking or dissipation would, in a very short time 
place you in a felon's cell. 

TEMPERAMENTS. 

MOTIVE, or muscular temperament 
would be the one in which to properly 
classifiy your organization. It is markei by a tall 
angular body, heavy bone, large joints, large hands 
and feet, prominent > cheek bones, large jaw, long 
square face, deep set eyes, heavy brows, course fea- 
tures, stern earnest expression, and as a rule, a .dark 
complexion. You are well adapted to any position 
requiring energy, or active heavy muscular work, are 
capable of great endurance and not easily discouraged, 
your mental qualities would sustain great burdens 
without impairment; your will power is the ruling 
sentiment of your being, and set in any direction 
would be firm and steadfast, always reliable. You will 
be more liable to contagious diseases and blood dis 
orders than to other complaints, and can get very 
sick within a short period Warm stimulating blood 



I 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 50 

producing remedies should be used to the exclusion 
of all others. Dissolution comes more suddenly to 
this temperament than to any other. Never delay 
in meeting dangerous symptoms. 

TEMPERAMENT. 

VITAL: This temperament denotes good 
digestive organs, capable of vigerous se- 
cretion, and ability to convert large quantities of food 
into blood, bone and muscle, and manifests a dis- 
position to appropriate the good things of life to use. 
The blood is rich and full, circulation and respira- 
tion active; strong impulses, intense sensibility, great 
imagination and quick temper. Short stature, round 
head, plump body, broad shoulders, full chest and 
abdomen, and, as a rule, light hair and eyes. 
The mental qualities consist of versatility, good na- 
ture and a genial, lively, fun-loving disposition, fond 
of artificial display, and content with surface accom- 
plishments. This temperament will be subject to a- 
cute disease as inflammation, fevers, rheumatism, con- 
gestion, and pulmonary affections and heart trouble. 

TEMPERAMENT. 

MENTAL: You have a very delicate 
brain structure, liable to over study and 
should be guarded with a jealous eye; vivid imagi- 
nation, discrimination, and have a proneness to wan- 
der off into the sublime mysteries of Spiritual mo- 
nitions. The peculiar characteristics of this tempera- 
ment are: delicate .bodily structure, prominence of a 
full broad forehead, pyraform face, high coronoid de- 
velopment, fine cut features, clear expressive eyes, 
[| fair complexion and a well poised bearing. The ex- 



51 POSSIBILITIES. 

cessive brain endowment lias devitalized the blood, 
absorbing the nerve tissues at the expense of bodily 
functions. You should assiduously apply your ener- 
gies to physical exercise. You have a predisposition to 
cutaneous diseases; exhaustion, prostration, scrofulous 
disorders of the blood and consumption. Your regi- 
men should consist of muscular exercise, inflation 
of the lungs by long deep breathing, and great 
moderation in all intellectual employments. 

TEMPERAMENT. 

MOTIVE VITAL: You have a motive 
vital temperament, signifying that the 
motive is in the ascendency, with the vital devel- 
oped in a less degree, and compared as these two 
temperaments have been described, only in a mod- 
ified, improved, and more harmonious condition. 

TEMPERAMENT. 

VITAL MOTIVE: You have a vital 
motive temperament, signifyng that the 
vital is in the ascendency, with the motive devel- 
oped in a less degree, and compared as these two 
temperaments have been described, only in a mod- 
ified, improved and more harmonious condition. 

TEMPERAMENT. 

MOTIVE MENTAL: You have a mo- 
tive mental temperament, signifying that 
the motive is in the ascendency, with the mental 
developed in a less degree, and compared as these 
temperaments have been described, only in a mod- 
ified, improved and more harmonious condition. 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 52 

TEMPERAMENT. 

MENTAL MOTIVE: You have a men- 
tal motive temperament, signifying that 
the mental is in the ascendency, with the motive 
developed in a less degree, and compared as these 
temperaments have been described, only in a modi- 
fied, improved and more harmonious condition. 
TEMPERAMENT. 

VITAL MENTAL: You have a vital 
mental temperament, signifying that the 
vital is in the ascendency, with the mental devel- 
oped in a less degree, and compared as these two 
temperaments have been described, only in a modi- 
fied, improved and more harmonious condition. 
TEMPERAMENT. 

MENTAL VITAL: You have the men- 
tal vital temperament, signifying that the 
mental is in the ascendency, with the vital devel- 
oped in a less degree, and compared as these two 
temperaments have been described, only in a modi- 
fied, improved and more harmonious condition. 

TEMPERAMENTAL SELECTIONS. 

Your selection in marriage should be with a person 
of the: 

MOTIVE TEMPERAMENT 

VITAL TEMPERAMENT 

MENTAL TEMPERAMENT 

MOTIVE VITAL TEMPERAMENT 



POSSIBILITIES. 

VITAL MOTIVE TEMPERAMENT .... 

MOTIVE MENTAL TEMPERAMENT.?.. 

ME\T. I L MOTIVE TEMPERAMENT.... 

VITAL MENTAL TEMPERAMENT .... 

MENTu 1 L I MTAL TEMPERAMENT .... 

Bodily structure should be 

Complexion should be 

Hair should be 

Eyes should be 

Weight should be , 

You would succeed the best as a 

Your next choice should be 

You would be fairly successful as a 



AMATIVENESS. 
— c^<r^ SE*Eg rf>^ j — 

The organ of Amativeness is the very foundation 
of our being. Depending on this alone is the per- 
petuation of the species; without this element all an- 
imate life would cease. The command of the Divine 
Law-giver himself is: "To be fruitful and mulitply.' , 

The normal legitimate development of this element 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 54 

of our being is the natural harmonizer of society. 
The fulfillment of our very being depends upon our 
relation to generation, reproduction and maintenance 
of our race. Obedience to its mandates insures the 
greatest blessings, and creates ties that bind in an in- 
separable compact the most hallowed relation. It 
creates an amiable, benignant disposition, outflowing 
into one spontaneous influence which pervades the 
entire fabric of humanity. The lewd and sensual 
may traduce this ' organ into a synonym of lust, 
and perverted, will produce more derangement, both 
mental and physical, than all other organs in the 
human body. 

AMATIVENESS. 

LARGE: You have a nature, warm, 
ardent and passionately fond of the op- 
posite sex. Your affections are capable 
of supreme happiness, and if thwarted, cause intense 
suffering. You appreciate a demonstration of devo- 
tion, and intuitively return the same caresses; are 
habitually found in the company of the adored, fond 
of beauty, and charmed by personal excellence. You 
have implicit confidence in the emotions and are apt 
to be deceived by designing persons. The best moral 
and religious people should be your associates. 

AMATIVENESS. 
FULL: You exact other consideration 
than emotive inclinations. A life of ce- 
libacy would fall far short of being a 
happy life for you. Social enjoyment is the ele- 
ment upon which your success or failure depends. 
Under ordinary circumstances you would keep this 
passion under control. Temptation avoided, is how- 
ever, the only absolute safeguard. 



POSSIBILITIES. 

A MAT I YEN ESS. 

MODERATE: Life with you* could be 
made happy in the marriage relation, and 
also without it. It would make little 
difference in your surroundings, you would be gov- 
erned by duty rather than by emotion. Indifference 
to the social world is a marked characteristic of your 
being. In your case if you ever marry it will be 
apt to be through the instrumentality of friends, or 
by reason of circumstances, rather than by your own 
effort. 

AMATIVENESS. 
SMALL: You have a natural born an- 
tipathy against the opposite sex, and 
the most miserable existence to you 
would be a married life. You would look upon the 
marriage rite as a galling fetter, servitude, little bet- 
ter than abject slavery. Your social qualities are 
confined to those of your own sex. It would be 
impossible for you to win the love of any one- 
zcarcely your own. You may have a faint concep- 
tion of respect, but love is entirely foreign to your 
organization; to you a dead language. 
CONJUGALITY. 
LARGE: Your attachment is largely for 
one only. Being absent or out of sight 
is a matter of earnest solicitude. The 
very presence of your mate is a source of agreeable 
satisfaction, and to be compelled to go through life 
without a genial ♦companion would be povert} r and 
starvation of all the domestic faculties, resulting in 
failure in any avenue in which the conditions of 
life might place you; equally as poignant would be 
the loss, to realize that your love and devotion 
were not reciprocated. Upon your perfect adaptation 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 56 

to your chosen consort will depend your success 
and welfare. It would be impossible to replace 
your affinity; once broken, the heart would pine 
away in despair, and like Rachel: "refuse to be com- 
forted; 7 

CONJUGALITY. 
FULL: Your affections are placed on 
one only, devotion to that one would 
be as sacred as Holy Incense. Infidel- 
ity and deception would be the only earthly cause 
of separation, then it would cause more acute suf- 
fering than death itself. You might, after a length 
of time, reconcile yourself to a second choice, but 
never with the same degree of affection, if the first 
choice was made upon a basis of temperamental a- 
daptation. The second choice would be more from 
a philosophical standpoint than a matter of love. 
Circumstances and situations would be more apt to 
induce a second marriage as a duty for the sake of 
others. 

CONJUGALITY. 

MODERATE: You are satisfied with the 
love of one as long as that one is pres- 
ent, can readily change your affections 
from one to an other, would not grieve unconsol- 
ably if bereft of your companion. One marriage 
would have no precedent over another, you would 
enjoy the same pleasure in the second, third, or 
fourth choice, as the first. Under favorable circum- 
stances for it, you would be a "flirt" and "co- 
quet." It would be possible for you to be led astray 
and be unfaithful to the marriage relation. 
CONJUGALITY. 
SMALL: You have little desire for the 
marriage relation, and no conception of 



57 POSSIBILITIES. 

the exquisite enjpypaent of consort companionship. 
K would be impossible for yon to wield any mag- 
netic influence over the opposite sex. You consider 
any demonstration relative to this [acuity as: "nat- 
ural weakness," "childish" and "foolishness!" A dis- 
position like yours would be to a devoted heart, a 
friirid zone, chilling to deatli the tender emotions 
o( a warm domestic nature. 

PARENTAL LOVE. 
LARGE: You are passionately fond of 
children, and they are by some inex- 
plicable power, as sure as the magnet to 
the pole, drawn to you. If you were in a crowded 
car or thronged street and heard a child cry, it 
Avould cause you intense suffering; you would aban- 
don your business instantly to relieve the child. 
You could hardly endure to have your own child 
out of your sight, your heart would go out to it 
in earnest solicitude, and you would suffer "home- 
sickness" until it returned. Your sympathy will 
often allow indulgences not the best for the child. 
The grief at the death of your child could never 
be assuaged, you would keep intact some little toy, 
garment or picture, and find relief in fondling and 
caressing "baby's things." Reference as to dates would 
be computed from the time "when baby died." 
PARENTAL LOVE. 

FULL: You have a good developme nt 
of child love, and are capable of re- 
straining them into moral discipline. Y r ou 
take great pleasure in teaching them, and it gives 
you rapturous delight to see them unfold into ma- 
ture Hfe. The young are fond of your company 
and seek your council. They consider you more in 
the light of a companion than a senior. Y r our own 
children would share little more consideration in 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 58 

deportment than your neighbors. The law of your 
government would be justice. 

PARENTAL LOVE. 
MODERATE: Your own children will 
receive much more consideration at your 
hands than your neighbors. Teaching 
children would not be pleasent' to you, or profit- 
able to them. The young always talk and act in 
reserve in your presence. The boys would never 
elect you marshal of the day for a picnic outing. 
If they wanted some advice regarding matters above 
their years, you would be unanimously chosen. 
Children, as children, you are fond of; but they, as 
well as yourself, intuitively realize that tfiere is a 
vast difference between the two planes. 
PARENTAL LOVE. 

SMALL: The parental instinct is very 
lightly developed in your make-up. 
You generally refer to children as u kids," 
"brats" or nuisences." They instinctively shun your 
presence, and you are happy to rid yourself of their 
company. The laugh of a child would awaken no 
more sensation in your breast than the whistle of a 
steam saw-mill; and a baby's cry, would, alike be 
"just noise." You are stoical to both their joys or 
sorrows, neither exerting yourself to create the one, 
or to prevent the other. 

FRIENDSHIP. 
LARGE: The social qualities are large- 
ly manifested in your daily life. Devo- 
tion to friends is one of your leading 
traits. You are not satisfied with a few, but want 
every body to be your friend. This genial open- 
heartedness is often taken advantage of by your un- 
scrupulous neighbors, to your detriment. You would 



59 POSSIBILITIES, 

make almost any sacrifice and discommode yourself 
to accomodate others; you like to keep open house 
and entertain your friends. Nothing is too good to 
dispense in your hospitable provision for social en- 
joyment, consequently you have a great following of 
popular friends. 

FRIENDSHIP. 
FULL: Your intercourse with your fel- 
low-man will be open, frank and cor- 
dial. Your attachments will be limit- 
ed to those of like natures, and will be permanent 
and lasting. If betrayed or deceived, the resent- 
ment will also be perpetual. You will be cautious 
in expression and rarely make enemies; will be like- 
ly to suffer by misplaced confidence, and overesti- 
mate the qualities of your associates. It would be 
an easy matter to persuade you into enterprises sup- 
ported by your friends, that your own better judg- 
ment would repudiate in its quiet moments. 
FRIENDSHIP. 
MODERATE: Your friendship is based 
largely upon policy. You, however, have 
a very few intimate, bosom friends; but 
to people in general you will be considered cool, 
deliberate and calculating. You can conceal emotion 
and in trade or traffic it would be impossible to de- 
tect by your deportment any manifestation of success 
or loss. Very few persons would be apprised of your 
condition. If failure should attend your effort you 
would not appeal to your friends for sympathy, nei- 
ther would they be called in to share your joy in 
prosperity, 

FRIENDSHIP, 
SMALL: You have no appreciation of 
friendship. All courtesies and friendships 
are looked upon as schemes for merce- 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 60 

nary motives. You could live a mountain hermit a 
thousand miles from civilization, and experience no 
inconvenience socially. Your theory would be: "never 
borrow nor lend," not even the affections. If a per- 
fect stranger should meet and talk with you on the 
public highway, even in the most common place man- 
ner, you would surmise his object. Your manner of 
Jife will create no friends, and you want none. 
INHABITIVENESS. 
LARGE. Your attachment for home is 
very great. The place of your nativity 
is an evergreen spot in your being. 
Time and conditions may place you far away and 
in superior circumstances, but the heart in its devo- 
tional moods will wander back to the familiar scenes 
of childhood. The fields, the hills, the trees, will 
all have a peculiar fascination which age will not ef- 
face. To you the sun shines brighter, the fields look 
greener, the birds sing sweeter, and the associations 
dearer, at the "old home," than any place on earth. 
The "old oaken bucket" is a synonym of enchanted 
memories. 

INHABITIVENESS. 

FULL: You like to live in one place 

and when compelled to move do so with 

reluctance. Are very slow to consider 

changes, and it must be of absolute necessity if you 

do so. You delight in improving your home, and 

will expend money more freely for home comforts 

than for ,any thing else. Should change be necessary 

you will at once set about to duplicate the old home 

improvements; and will refer to them as: "the way 

things were at the old home." Above every other 

aspiration in life is that to own a home of your own. 

INHABITIVENESS. 



<il POSSIBILITIES. 

]\[OI)ERATE: Your attachment for home 
is dependent upon business principles. 
Moving from one place to another would 
cause no regret as you could adopt the new situa- 
tion with no feeling of "homesickness." You would 
manifest no special aversion to living in a rented 
property. Home means to you just what it costs in 
money value. You realize no difference in locality, 
and pay little attention to environments. You could 
be contented in the frigid zone if duty called you 
there, and find equal enjoyment in the tropics. 

INHABITIVENESS. 
SMALL: You could content yourself in 
a boarding house all your life. A home 
to you is merely a place to eat and to 
sleep. This sentimental talk about home is to jou 
a dead language. Y"ou have very faint recollection . 
of any attractions in former places of residence, so 
little indeed that it would confuse you to pick out 
houses you have occupied. Houses, trees and land- 
scapes all look alike to you. 

CONTINUITY. 
LARGE: You have wonderful ability'for i 
•, application to one specific measure, The | 
, details in every particular are canvassed { 

and no other interest is allowed to interfere in the 
solution of the one under consideration, until it isi 
completed. So completely are you absorbed in your 
undertakings that you are absent-minded and oblivi- 
ous to all surroundings. To slight or evade any par-/ 
ticular would be a sting to your conscience. You 
are prone to occupy too inuch time in preliminaries. 
Too particular about details; too monotonous. 

CONTINUITY. 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 62 

FULL: You concentrate your forces to 
but one thing at a time and devote all 
of your energies toward its completion 
until it is finished. You never change from one 
thing to another without a complete derangement of 
your entire working forces. As a writer you would 
use too many words in the preface. As a speaker, 
take up too much time in preliminaries. As a phy- 
sician you would weary your patients. By assiduous 
diligence you can habituate yourself to a practical 
system of ethics, You can, and should, reconcile 
yourself to innovation and change. 
CONTINUITY. 
MODERATE: Yon have a very happy 
combination of this faculty. You are in- 
terested enough to apply your energies 
to whatever may come to hand, aud discharge any 
obligation with credit to yourself. You can abandon 
one field of effort and enter another in radical rela- 
tion to the first, and after completing it, again pur- 
sue the first to completion with no visible incon- 
venience. You could, with half a dozen measures 
to be disposed of, take them all under advisement, 
and arrive at practical conclusions almost simultane- 
ously. In talking or writing you would use no su- 
perfluous words. 

CONTINUITY. 

SMALL: You are enthusiastic in the 

adoption of a new theory; ever ready to 

abandon the old and investigate the new. 

You rarely complete any task, but rapidly change 

from one method to another. This practice can be 

applied to your thoughts as well as to acts. Your 

combined volitive faculties should be brought to bear 

upon this fickle propensity. Adopt some specific task 

and determine to complete it before laying it down. 



63 POSSIBILITIES. 

By a rigid discipline you can, to a certain extent 
overcome, or at least improve in this habit. 
VITATIVENESS. 
LARGE: You have an abject fear of 
♦ death, and look upon it as a total anni- 
hilation. The real enjoyments of life am 
marred by your continual dread of final dissolution. 
Disease will attach itself to you in its most malig- 
nant forms, and you will ward off ailments and 
recover, where most persons would succumb. You 
are not often sick but the intensity of suffering is 
much greater than in cases where death is not looked 
upon with such terrific emotion. If it were possi- 
ble you would live here always, satisfied with ani- 
mal life. 

VITATIVENESS. 
FULL: You have a very strong hold 
on life, and are not subject to "spells" 
of sickness. You can get very sick, and 
then rapidly recover. In case of a wreck, disaster or 
accident, you would overcome what would kill out- 
right ninety nine persons out of a hundred. You 
are continually looking out for self preservation. 
You wiH make no provisions for your business rela- 
tions to continue after your death, by making a will. 
Y r ou fully realize that at some time you will have 
to yield to the inevitable, but the repulsion of the 
subject is so great that you avoid making prepar- 
ation by business transactions relative to the ordeal. 
VITATIVENESS. 
MODERATE: Your enjoyments of life 
are based on natural laws. You fully re- 
alize the uncertainties of life, and util- 
ize the time in pleasant contemplation of the life 
hereafter. Duties and obligation to your fellow-man 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 64 

are your greatest incentives for living. While in 
health and prosperity you have a strong hold upon 
life; but disease and tribulation would so influence 
your mind that your preference would be death. 
You recover from sickness slowly and your general 
health is inclined to be "brashy." After the merid- 
ian of life is passed you would be a passive sub- 
ject, reconciled to either, here, or hereafter. 
VITATIVENESS. 
SMALL: Disease would find an apt sub- 
ject. You see but little pleasure in life 
and enjoy very little comfort in living. 
It would be impossible for you to enter into a spirit- 
ed contest employing energy and vivacity. You con- 
sider all transitory objects as worldly uncertainties. 
If you were on a boat when the fire alarm sound- 
ed, you would instantly jump overboard and drown 
yourself td avoid the accident. In case of a gre&t ep- 
idemic yoh would be the first to die — from fright. 
COMBATIVENESS. 

LARGE: You have very great determi- 
nation and are bold, brave and courage- 
ous. Inclined to take issue with any 
subject. Assertions are all made in the form of a 
challenge, You court contention, argument and op- 
position". You have many adjustments to make, as 
a consequence of your rash deportment. People con- 
sider you as quarrelsome. You say what you think 
in abrupt terms, regardless of place or conditions. 
You will lack friends and never be able to hold 
positions. 

COMBATIVENESS. 
FULL: You resist any advances made 
toward assuming your prerogatives. Are 
easily offended, and when opposed show 



POSSIBILITIES. 

violent passion. You are not as a rule, the aggress- 
or, but will not silently endure imposition or insult. 
Your method of settling difficulties would* 4 be a hand 
to hand fight. You "make up 1 ' and are sorry that 
you quarreled with your friends. You w r ould want 
to talk to your enemy "right to his face.' 1 You use 
no duplicity in your dealings. Should a reconcilia- 
tion be sought, you would freely forgive, but hold to 
the firm belief that you were "right" — beligerent to 
the end. 

COMBATIVENESS. 

MODERATE: You have courage, force 
and energy, but prefer to show it in 
works, rather than in word conflicts. 
Y'our ideas are based on reason, and the opposition 
and beliefs of others would not incite you to anger 
or to personal contact. In adjusting differences you 
would always appeal to law and equity, 'What you 
thought was right you would defend at the cost of 
your life if necessary; without any ostentation or dem- 
onstration. You would "live at peace with all men, 
as much as lieth in you."' 

COMBATIVENESS. 

SMALL: Resentment is something you 
know nothing about. You would run 
before you would defend yourself. You 
would deny assertions made, if they were likely to 
lead to dissension. You would wait until others had 
expressed an opinion, then you would think "so too." 
Y r ou rarely express an opinion, and can not enter 
into an argument upon any subject. Y T ou lack force 
enough to become angry. You will be helpless in 
the hands of persons of stronger wills, and be sub- 
missive to their dictations. 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 66 

DESTRUCTIVENESS. 
LARGE: Your executive faculties are 
very largely developed. You are deter- 
mined and unconquerable. Impediments 
in your way will only act as stimulus to renewed 
effort. You have a great store of reserved force, you 
have to be doing. Remuneration is not as much 
to you as to realize something accomplished. You 
delight in the heaviest kind of heavy work, and then 
sigh for something heavier. You undertake, and ac- 
complish, where, what would seem to most people 
unsurmountable obstacles existed. You would endure 
intense suffering without a whimper. Provocation 
would make you revengeful, furious and dangerous. 
Your greatest ambition would be to do something 
never before accomplished. 

DESTRUCTIVENESS. 
FULL: You have energy, force, and a- 
bility to put into execution your plans. 
You will not be intimidated or influ- 
enced bj' impending conditions. You will wear out 
in active service. You never "scheme" to get an 
easy place. You will always be able to say to your 
employees, "Let me show you how to do that." In 
writing you would select the great questions. In 
preaching, be emphatic. In medicine, use powerful 
remedies. In surgery, you would want to use the 
knife and let some one else administer the anaesthet- 
ics. You speak in a loud voice; in short, you want 
to be "boss," and anything objectionable you want 
to annihilate at once, 

DESTRUCTIVENESS. 
MODERATE: You can work, and you 
can also rest. You are industrious and 
energetic. You arrange and execute work 



<;: possibilities. 

with dispatch, and feel real enjoyment in accom- 
plishing your desires. You have some difficulty in 
managing those under you, your commands are not 
always considered imperative. Sometimes you resort 
to threats but rarely execute them. You can en- 
dure a great amount of suffering, or disappointment, 
but with it, you would do some complaining. Y r our 
subordinates would treat you as a companion instead 
of a superior. 

DESTRUCTIVENESS. 
SMALL: You are not constituted for 
any executive position. Your will pow- 
er is better calculated to follow than to 
lead. Trivial difficulties discourage and conquer you 
before you begin work. You ask every one for ad- 
vice, and follow none of it. You would go without 
a meal rather than to kill a chicken to roast 
for dinner. The sight of blood, or being present at 
an accident, would cause you to faint. You would 
walk around a snake in the road, rather than to in- 
flict pain by killing it. In case of fire or catastro- 
phe, you would be completely prostrated. 
ALIMENTIVENESS. 
LARGE: Your palate and stomach are 
your masters. To eat, is the ultimatum 
of your existence. You want good vict- 
uals and lots of them. You have a wonderful fac- 
ulty of digestion, and can convert great amounts of 
food into blood, bone and muscle. To one lightly 
endowed in this organ, you would appear gluttonous, 
but you generate no more steam than the boiler can 
utilize. You prefer rared meats, soft light bread 
and juicy pie. You eat more meat than bread, as a 
rule. Besides wanting lots to eat, you want lots of 
time to eat it; it is the last place that you could en- 
dure to be hurried— at the dinner table. 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 68 

ALIMENTIVENESS. 
FULL: One of the greatest things about 
you is your appetite. You eat with a 
relish any thing palatable. You frequent- 
ly overdo the matter and the digestive organs rebel 
against such procedure. You, are not particular re- 
garding style or system of table etiquet, but conduct 
ceremonies about as men do in a "free for all" race. 
You impose upon the stomach and digestive apara- 
tus, duties belonging to the teeth, jaws and salivary 
glands. Old age will probably find you suffering with 
gout or kindred diseases. A less amount of food, bet- 
ter masticated would do you more good. 

ALIMENTIVENESS. 
MODERATE: You have an active taste 
for epicurean luxuries. You are not ex- 
acting about the great amount, but you 
want it in fine order. Dinner without a cloth on the 
table would be nauseating and repulsive. Silver 
knives and forks would add relish to every dish, 
A boquet of rich flowers would be as much as food. 
You want the viands a delicate brown, and all dish- 
es "well done," highly seasoned and well served. 
You would require much time in taking a repast; 
you would not be hurried. You appreciate a social 
atmosphere at the dinner table and attend to the cer- 
emonies with much deliberation, and, if accustomed 
to it, would relish after dinner speeches. 

ALIMENTIVENESS. 
SMALL: You have a delicate appetite, 
and are seldom, if ever, hungry. Dainty 
dishes are often left untasted. Your sys- 
tem becomes impoverished because of your esthetic 
appetite. Delicious preparations afford no temptation 
to partake of a hearty meal. You frequently avoid 



68 POSSIBILITIES. 

eating for many hours without experiencing any in- 
convenience. You eat only as a compulsion to sus- 
tain life. Your lack of a normal appetite* wholly in- 
capacitates you for useful occupation of any kind, de- 
stroying the entire recuperative powers. 
BIBATIVENESS. 
LARGE: Y r ou were born thirsty, and 
drink great quantities of water, and you 
could very easily acquire a habit of in- 
temprance in intoxicating beverages. You drink a 
great deal while taking your meals, and prefer con- 
diments and soups to solid foods. You would very 
easily detect peculiar taste, or mineral properties in 
your drink. You would experience no u homesick- 
ness" or fear in ocean voyages. In bathing you 
would want a great deal of water, and it is just as 
natural for you to swim, as* to walk on land. In 
prospecting for a home, the water privileges would 
be the first consideration. 

BIBATIVENESS. 
FULL: You have strong proclivities to- 
ward aquatic combinations. Not only 
the taste and habit of drinking copious 
draughts of water, but the murmuring waves, the 
boundless ocean's blue, the meadow brook, all, have 
a peculiar fascination which holds you spell bound. 
Y T ou would never want a farm without a river run- 
ning through it. In a picture, you would want water, 
boats and fishermen. The old mill, dam, and pond, 
would be chosen in preference to royal palaces and 
ancient castles. Your inclination is greater for water 
externally, than internally. 

BIBATIVENESS. 
MODERATE: You utilize water liberal- 
ly for sanitary purposes, but drink rath- 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 70 

e-r sparingly. You never realize any special delight 
in looking at water scenes. Should business require 
it you could make a voyage, but prefer to travel 
on land. Diging canals, and building water-ways 
would be repulsive work to you. You might con- 
tent yourself at bridge building, or erecting dams; 
something to control the element and contribute to 
subordination, but never to augment its properties or 
volumn of force. 

BIBATIVENESS. 
SMALL: You have a general aversion 
to water and its uses. Drink little and 
wash less. You are timid about the 
water, and to travel by boat, would result in abject 
terror. You never go near a river, and the lakes and 
water-falls have no visions of beauty, seen through 
your eyes. It would be impossible for you to be- 
come proficient in marine requirements and obliga- 
tions. ACQUISITIVENESS. 

LARGE: Your natural propensities lead 
in the avaricious and miserly channels. 
You would rather hoard up money, than 
to invest it in legitimate business for fear of loss. 
Your penurious parsimony would result in hard, close 
bargains. You would figure and exact the last far- 
thing in a deal. Your own pleasure, comfort, and 
even health would be sacrificed, if by so doing your 
accumulations could be increased. Silver and gold, you 
consider the only money, and you would not think 
of hiding away paper money or bonds. You would 
put up with a scant larder to increase your wealth. 
You take great comfort in counting over your treas- 
ures. 

ACQUISITIVENESS. 

FULL: You have an instinctive faculty 
for turning every thing you touch into 



7\ POSSIBILITIES 

money. You always try to- buy l>< lv>\v fehe regular 
price, ami in selling, use extortion*. You would ex- 
act the last penny in an agreement, and would charge* 
one of your own children for hoard, after attaining 
its majority. In like manner you would insist upon 
returning cash equivalents for favors received. Ev- 
ery thing, even your religion, is based upon a basi& 
of exact economy. You covet the distinction of be- 
ing rich. In marriage, you would be greatly influenc- 
ed by money considerations. Your children's selec- 
tions in marriage would be agreeable, or objectiona- 
ble, owing to the financial qualifications. 

ACQUISITIVENESS. 
MODERATE: Your idea of acquiring 
property, or for that matter any thing 
else, is with an eye to its practical uses. 
You get one hundred cents out of every dollar you 
spend, if not in money value, in? real enjoyment. 
If pressed by debts or other incumbrance, you would 
economize until you could adjust the claim. You 
would pay all of your debts, and then spend your 
last dollar with the freedom of a millionaire. You 
will be inclined to live up to about your income. 
To a nature like yours, debts and obligations are as; 
a rudder to the ship, the only means of absolute 

safety. 

ACQUISITIVENESS. 
SMALL: You are always "hard up" and 
would be "straped" at the end of each 
month, no matter what your wages would 
be. You contract obligations far in advance of your 
ability to meet them. If you should inherit a leg- 
acy you would spend the entire amount without a 
thought of discharging your debts already contracted. 
You always pay big price for what you buy. Your 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 72 

manner of work is extravagant, wasteful and reck- 
less. You could not "buy and sell, and get gain." 
SECRETIVENESS, 
LARGE: You are reserved, discreet, cun- 
ning and shrewd. Can conceal your feel- 
ings and deceive your best friend. No 
one can tell your bearings. You practice strateg}' 
and delight in mysterious transactions. Your closest 
friend is never aware of your intentions. You can 
be on the eve of bankruptcy, and by your deport- 
ment the world w r ould suppose you were doing a 
lucrative business. Your tactics would be to employ 
agencies through confederates, and they would never 
surmise that you were using them as tools to accom- 
plish your ends. If you were ever so desirous of 
purchasing property you would so arrange that the 
other party would be the aggressor. 
SECRETIVENESS. 
FULL: You have the endowments nec- 
essary for a good politician. You could 
carry both issues without abrupt rup- 
ture. When pressed, you could be hypocritical* and 
in emergencies, betray your friends. As a rule you 
love truth, but do not always practice it. Your meth- 
od is largely after policy. Your friends are never cer- 
tain just where you will "turn up." In a trade you 
would never say that your horse had a ring-bone. 
You never divulge your plans and intentions. You 
would, however, be more likely to evade the truth 
in actions, rather than words. You would make peo- 
ple infer by your actions, more than by declarations 
by mouth, and yet the impression which you seek 
to make is not the exact truth. 
SECRETIVENESS. 

MODERATE: You are open, fraak and 
outspoken. People know what you mean 



POSSIBILITIES, 



when you say no. You would never make a pop- 
ular politician. What you think you say at amy time* 
and in any place. Von could keep a secret in perfect 
confidence and no earthly power could induce yoiv 
to betray your friend. You never try to assume af- 
fectation or palliate your faults. Your neighbors would 
trust you with implicit confidence. No one would 
ever accuse you of being tricky, or taking advantage 
by misrepresentation. You can not conceal your feel- 
ings. 

SECRETIVENESS. 
SMALL: You often suffer by being in- 
discrete, and disclosing your own business. 
Y T ou fail to maintain confidence among 
vour associates, by telling all you know, and your 
neighbors have a faculty also,of finding out, prying 
into, and overhearing matters pertaining to your bus- 
iness, because you make it a general topic of con- 
versation, among all people and at any place or time. 

CAUTIOUSNESS. 

• 

LARGE: Your apprehensions are active. 
Fear, caution and anxiety continually at- 
tend your ways. You are always on the 
lookout for something to happen; expecting some great 
calamity. Traveling, you would fear accident. In bus- 
iness, you would expect disaster. In sickness, be a- 
fraid of death. You are suspicious of every thiBg that 
comes along, You would hesitate to adopt new meas- 
ures and doubt practical demonstrations before your 
very eyes. This continual, unnatural fear, circum- 
scribes your usefulness in life, and precludes a pos- 
sibility of eminent success. 

CAUTIOUSNESS. 
FULL: You are very strongly endowed 
in this organ. The pleasures of life are 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 74 

in mist and cloud, because of this evil forboding. 
You would see the thorn instead of the rose. You 
would suffer more by a knowledge of the necessity 
of an amputation of a limb, than you would by the 
operation itself. Money would be a source of actual 
torment for fear of being robbed. You are adverse 
to meeting strangers, and shrink from forming new 
acquaintances. You will lose precious opportunities 
by hesitating. This faculty is the greatest obstacle you 
have to contend with. 

CAUTIOUSNESS. 
MODERATE: You venture upon untried 
fields after due deliberation, and march 
right up to appearing dangers, which, as 
a rule, vanish before you. Impulse may occasionally 
overcome your better judgment, but due considera- 
tions, are apt to be the "rule and guide of your faith 
and practice through life. 1 ' You are never in a great 
rush and hurry to begin an enterprise; neither will 
you defer action after a course has been determined 
upon. Prudence and carefulness, but not timidity, is 
your nature. 

CAUTIOUSNESS. 

SMALL. Great risks are rashly assumed 
and you rarely stop to count the cost, 
trusting to your "luck" to take you 
through. You venture into schemes and undertak- 
ings that would be apalling to most persons. You 
are liable to get hurt, be in frequent accidents, and 
as it is termed, be "unlucky." You will be subject 
to loss of property, if you should inherit any, by 
making reckless investments. You could be induced 
to attempt what the world calls "fool hardy" feats. 
You could not be intimidated by threats of violence, 
or benefited by admonitions of danger. 



75 POSSIBILITIES, 

approbattveness: 

LARGE. You are affable, g'uagive, ahd 
fond of flattery. The great ambition of 
your life is to meet public favor and rec- 
ognition; to be popular, stylish and well thought 
of, foiid of a great display, ostentatious and proud. 
The question you would ask first, is not: Is it 
right? but: What will people say? You will spend 
money to gain applause sooner than for the necessa- 
ries of life, Censure would be very humiliating and 
derision, unbearable. You are a votary of, and bow 
at the shrine of "Mrs. Grundy." 

APPROBATIVENESS. 
FULL: You are more interested in gain- 
ing the good will of your neighbors than 
to maintain a character free from im- 
moral practices. In business transactions you would 
be polite, courteous, and often violate the equities of 
life to please your fastideous customers, and save your- 
self from blame or censure. In teaching, your mode 
would be, to inspire by public opinion, to gain obe- 
dience, through fear of shame and disgrace. As a 
parent, you would admonish with: "what others 
will think and say." You will exhibit a govern- 
ment controlled by bribery. 

APPROBATIVENESS. 
MODERATE: Your first question in any 
matter would be from a moral stand- 
point of justice. You would not be ad- 
verse to praise, but it must be accompanied by a 
consciousness of duty discharged, and entirely void 
of flattery. You would be considered by many, as 
brusque in manners, but will bear acquaintance. 
You are rather plain and common place in appear- 
ances, but desire to be presentable. A garment a lit- 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 7G 

tie out of "style," could be worn by you, with grace 
and dignity. 

APPROBATIVENESS. 
SMALL: No amount of praise would in- 
fluence you; or blame cause you any 
sensitiveness. What people say or think 
about you, is a matter of no consideration on your 
part. You are careless and slovenly about your dress, 
abrupt in your manners, and a general repulsive de- 
meanor is manifest in all business transactions. You 
have no conception of style or fashion, and are in- 
sensible to the finer feelings of the human heart. 
SELF ESTEEM. 
LARGE: You have an exalted opinion 
of yourself; your ability to do, and an 
aspiration to lead. You regard yourself 
as master of ceremonies and will not be dictated to 
by subordinates; neither will you ask or accept ad- 
vice. You are naturally tyrranical, and egotistical, in 
relating circumstances you would say: "I would have 
done so, and so." You have too much dignity and 
pride to stoop to a low, mean, unworthy act. Peo- 
ple will consider you proud, haughty and unap- 
proachable. You will occupy a front seat, ride in 
the best car, demand, and secure recognition among 
all classess. 

SELF ESTEEM. 

FULL: You have the natural qualities 

of a leader. Your friends will realize in 

your presence a superior. You will not 

stop at the ground floor or lower story; and will 

exhibit a self-reliant ability to give command, even to 

those who march at the head of the procession. You 

assume responsibilities intuitively, and it gives you 

great satisfaction to realize the dependence of others 



77 POSSIBILITIES, 

upon your ability to lead, undismayed, under any con- 
ditions, on to victory. 

*K\A< ESTEEM. * 

MODERATE: You,aecept responsible po- 
sitions if pressed to do so, but never 
seek them; and you discharge the du- 
ties imposed upon you with credit to yourself. You 
feel a diffidence in placing a real value upon your 
abilities, hut have a correct estimate of their worth. 
You would be able to correct and instruct many per- 
sons who would succeed in procuring places where 
sinister motives and personal pride, by selfish, politic 
schemes were obtained. You never seek self aggrand- 
izement. Very few of your associates, and hardly 
yourself, are aware of your real worth and ability. 
SELF ESTEEM. 
SMALL: It is impossible for you to ap- 
pear dignified, commanding and self-re- 
lient. You depend upon the advice of 
others, and are inclined to mingle with those below 
you in the scale of intellectual ability. You are not 
willing to assume responsibilities. You are not capa- 
ble of leading, but very susceptible of being dictated 
to. Your whole bearing is one of deference, submis- 
sion and humility. Your life will be apt to be one 
of servitude and humble degree. 

FIRMNESS. 
LARGE: You can not be influenced or 
persuaded. You have a mind of your 
own and persue a course after your own 
way. You would not acknowledge being mistaken, 
and if defeated, you would not attribute the cause 
to yourself. You accomplish your measures by tena- 
cious perseverence and unyielding effort. The more 
opposition you meet the stronger will be your pur- 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 78 

pose. You never change your opinions. You often 
fail to accomplish your ends by being, too* obstinate 
and arbitrary. 

FIRMNESS. 
FULL: You are capable of ruling every 
thing that comes in your way except 
your own will. You would suffer mar- 
tyrdom at the stake before you would yield against 
your opinion. You will be radical on every point, 
and be looked upon as a fanatic. You will resort 
to extreme measures. People will look upon you as 
egotistical and contrary, stubborn, and uncontrolla- 
ble. People never repeat a request if your first an- 
swer is no. You never humiliate yourself by asking 
forgiveness, or making an apology. 

FIRMNESS. 
MODERATE: You are persistent, dili- 
gent and firm in purpose, but reason 
upon all measures, and when convinced 
of wrong, will cheerfully acknowledge it, and change 
your opinion. You never can be coerced, or driven, 
but reasonable persuasion will find careful and con- 
siderate lodgment in your heart, and be conscien- 
tiously acted upon. When a measure is adopted, and 
you are sincere in its belief, it will require positive 
proof of error before you will renounce the old, and 
adopt the new. You are considerate, firm, reliable 
and approachable. 

FIRMNESS. 

SMALL: You are a tenant in will pow- 
er; that is, you have none of your own, 
and what you may act under will sim- 
ply be in subordination to some one's else will. As 
the popular pulse beats, so you decide. You are pas- 
sive upon all measures, and willing to float with the 



79 POSSIBILITIES. 

current. You will In 4 considered tickle, impulsive and 
''unstable in all your ways/' You are a creature of 
conditions and circumstances, generally unfavorable at 
that, because you are not considered reliable and 
trustworthy. 

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. 
LARGE: Your ideal of justice and equi- 
ty is of very high order; and the most 
painful sensitiveness is experienced when 
you deviate from the ridged discipline of exact prin- 
ciple, based upon a theory of scrupulous honesty. 
You never tolerate any equivocation from the path of 
rectitude, and your judgment would be severe and 
swiftly retributive for violation. You could palliate 
any other weakness in a companion, better than a 
disposition to be dishonest and deceitful. You ex- 
hibit very little charity or sympathy for those who 
yield to temptation. 

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. 
FULL: "Honesty is the best policy," is 
your motto. Is it right? must be an- 
swered, and approved, before you adopt 
any method of procedure. To do violence to your 
conscience would cause you remorse, chagrin, and might 
cause you irretrievable calamity. You would sur- 
render all ties of friendship, endure any privation, or 
loss, "for conscience' sake." You have an inherent 
element which enters into and controls the lives of 
benefactors, missionaries and philanthropists, and sac- 
rifices all else for duty. Every thing must conform 
to the dictates of conscience. 

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. 
MODERATE: The path of rectitude is 
the one you are naturally inclined to 
follow, but allurements and seductive ap- 



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pearances may influence you out of the "straight and 
narrow way;" but repentance and reform would speed- 
ily follow and you would not attempt to justify your- 
self in the least, but open-heartedly and frankly con- 
fess your sin and seek forgiveness in tears. You 
would have much charity for those convicted of wrong, 
and sympathetic with them in their shortcomings. 
Your neighbors will have implicit confidence in your 
honesty and veracity. 

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. 

SMALL: Expediency, policy and profit, 
is the foundation on which your con- 
science (if you have any) rests. Should you 
be clearly convicted, you would palliate your sin by 
comparing it with greater ones committed by some 
other person. "Sorrow for sin," is something un- 
known in your vocabulary. Your enjoyment is har- 
assed by the realization that your associates are cog- 
nizant of your wrong doing, and also the greater sin, 
your stubborn refusal to acknowledge your error, by 
penitent reconciliation with those you have wronged. 

HOPE. 

LARGE: The very air, in your presence 
is filled with fragrance from flowers that 
are to bloom in the future. You have un- 
shaken confidence in the immortality of the soul, and 
of future happiness. Earth's sorrows and disappoint- 
ments are mittigated by the expectation of everlast- 
ing joy. Amid' all of the vicissitudes of life, your 
faith sustains and buoys you up. Disappointments 
may be gr^at, and you may come far short of your 
expectations, yet your "Light will not grow less, or 
disappear." "You will see a rain-bow through your 
tears." 



81 possibilities. 

HOPE. 
PULL: If you should meet with dis- 
aster you would rise again'. You never 
consider the past, but live in vivid an- 
ticipation of the future. In business, you will mate 
rash ventures, and follow delusive ideas. You will 
make extravagant investments, and speculate in un- 
dertakings that are riot feasible. Doubts, fears, and 
possible failures, never enter your mind. Y r ou are 
sanguine, hopeful, expectant, cheerful and happy. 
You never despair. You never give up. 

HOPE. 

MODERATE: Y T ou generally realize your 
expectations, and base all of your hopes 
upon a basis of reasonable results. You 
are not morose or despondent, but sober, codsiderate , 
and satisfied with matter and material as they are. 
Y"ou believe in utilizing the present opportunity, and 
enjoying the present blessings. You, at times become 
discouraged, but expect, and make provision for some 
clouds, and believe that "Into each life some rain 
must fall." You neither worry about, or have an 
insatiate desire to realize what the future has in store 
for you. 

, HOPE. 
SMALL: You look upon life as a "vale 
of tears," and look for the dark side of 
every object. The "Lion's down the road" 
you keep in vivid imagination. You look upon war, 
epidemics, pestilence and every conceivable agency of 
destruction, as inevitable visitations belonging to the 
near future. Your riligious manifestations would at- 
tempt to gain solace out of abstract statements, as 
"Man that ite born of woman is of few days and 
full of trouble." 



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SPIRITUALITY. 
LARGE: Your religious faculties are 
clear, forceful and positive. You have 
wonderful intuitive perceptions of the 
unseen. Invisible influences continually pervade your 
mind, and you are governed by spiritual monitions. 
You have bright conceptions of immortality, and a 
positive knowledge of the existence and attributes of 
a Divine Being. Y r ou are habitually found in silent 
meditation on the glorious revelations experienced in 
secret communion with your Maker. Blending of 
spirits so enraptures your being, that even your as- 
sociates experience a halo of peaceful, restful, ec- 
static happiness in your presence. This experience is 
beyond all power of reason to explain, yet it is so, 
and you know it is so. 

SPIRITUALITY. 

FULL: Your mind is actively employ,- 
ed in contemplating the supernatural. 
Monitions, monitors, impressions, are very 
forcible agencies in your experience. In undertaking 
any new departure you will be controlled by the 
sensation of intuitive influence. Y r ou could very 
easily become infatuated with spiritualism, clairvoy- 
ance, fortune-telling, mind-reading, dream-interpreta- 
tion and hypnotic influences. You could become a 
medium, and would be an expert in hypnotism. 
Your conceptions are not always clear, and as it is 
impossible to explain this impressive phenomena, 
you might become very superstitious. 

SPIRITUALITY. 
MODERATE: You would follow from 
your own involuntary will, a correct 
mode of ethics. Frequently you experi- 
ence impressions, but you can not connect them in 



83 POSSIBILITIES; 

your mind with any thing beyond animal instinct. 
You would laugh to scorn any avowed belief in 
ghosts or witchcraft. Matters which seem unfath- 
omable you consider as inventions of deception. Your 
life in relation to duty, will be discharged upon 
the basis of reason, rather than by impressions. 
You will follow after matters that can be demon- 
strated. Sometimes you honestly try to believe in 
spiritual guidance, but are prone to doubt. 

SPIRITUALITY. 

SMALL: You believe in nothing that 
you can not see; you must have the 
material substance, to w T eigh, measure, or 
estimate. You doubt even the only thing of value 
about yourself, your mind. The greatest joys of life 
are sacrificed by your inability to rise above mere 
brute instinct. You have no conception of a future 
beyond the grave yard. You exhibit contempt and 
ridicule for faith in an immortal life, or existence 
of a Supreme Being. The Bible and generation of 
the human family, are by you considered as myths, 
and legends, only applicable to children and those 
of weak minds. 

VENERATION. 
LARGE: You always refer to God and 
spiritual things with reverence, are a de- 
vout worshiper, and manifest a life of 
devotion, piety and christian endeavor. You also 
exhibit great deference to the aged, distinguished, 
and those whom you consider your superiors. You 
have respect amounting to almost reverence for old 
customs and established usages. Any innovations in 
conducting ceremonies, or administering the rites of 
church fellowship, would cause you anguish untold; 
you would feel that it was sacrilege and mockery. 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 84 

VENERATION, 

FULL: The church and its interests, are 
to you an ever present theme of con- 
versation. You are devoted, sincere and 
earnest; exhibit great fervency in the discharge of re- 
ligious duties. It grieves you beyond expression to 
hear profane language, and sacred institutions lightly 
spoken of. Your deportment is that of humility, 
submission and love. You reverence old and estab- 
lished customs, relics of antiquity and family heir- 
looms are held in sacred memory of the old associ- 
ations connected with their history. You can almost 
cause past experiences to materialize by your adhe- 
sive devotion to the friends of "The long ago." 
VENERATION. 
MODERATE: You are inclined to be a 
business christian. Your veneration is 
from a sense and obligation of duty, 
rather than an inborn spirit of devotion and rever- 
ence. Your emotions will be governed largely by sur- 
rounding conditions. You often experience "Fight- 
ings without and fears within." Adoration is a sub- 
servient quality of your organization. You are con- 
siderate and deferential to the rites and usages of 
sacred ceremonies, but pay little regard for those of 
men. Influence of training and early education will 
do much toward establishing your creed. 
VENERATION. 
SMALL: You manifest little regard for 
religion, creed, or belief, and never enter 
into worship in any manner. You doubt 
the existence of a Supreme Being and are irrever- 
ant, profane, and a scoffer. You delight to ridicule, 
and if it were possible, to distress those who support 
the church and religious institutions. You consider 



POSSUM LIT IKS. 

all devotion as fanaticism; and never experience awe 
and reverence in the presence oi any one, or under 
any circumstances. You would make derision of the 
aged and deerept, and torment an innocent, helpless, 
crippled child. 

BENEVOLENCE. 
LARGE: Every body, knows you as a 
genial, benignant, generous, sympathetic, 
tender-hearted soul. You are melted to 
tears by harsh words or beholding ill treatment of 
helpless childhood, or suffering of any description. 
You can endure rough treatment yourself much better 
than to see others abused. You would give away 
your last dollar to alleviate the wants of a perfect 
stranger. You are easily imposed upon, for no beg- 
gar, tramp or vagabond would appeal to you and go 
away empty-handed. The needy and destitute in your 
own neighborhood are conscious of your magnani- 
mous charity. You give lavishly, and with no motive 
except the inexpressible delight of giving. Children 
are intuitively drawn toward you and are free to con- 
fide their troubles in your ear. 

BENEVOLENCE. 

' FULL: You delight to give, and your 
charity is never limited to policy. You 
would not only bestow your goods and 
possessions, but in any measure necessary, would give 
yourself unreservedly to philanthropic and benevo- 
lent enterprises. Yours would be a broad charity, 
for all, general in its purposes. You would be capa- 
ble of extensive operations, and generally keep clear 
of designing persons. Your benefactions are from a 
spontaneous emotion, and you never experience any 
misgivings by reason of bequests to unworthy sub- 
jects. You never "let thy left hand know what 
thy right hand doeth." 



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BENEVOLENCE. 
MEDIUM: You give to the poor and 
needy when satisfied that they are wor- 
thy, and are really destitute. You would 
probably provide a way for them to pay for your 
beneficence by work, and if satisfied that they were 
willing to pay by honest effort, would make a dona- 
tion cheerfully and discharge the requirements of ser- 
vice. It would be difficult to impose upon you in 
this direction. You choose the best places and retain 
the best things for your own use. Charity is always 
considered upon business principles. In case of acci- 
dent or disaster, you would look after your own in- 
terests first; then help your neighbor, then the strang- 
er; but each in his turn. 

BENEVOLENCE. 
SMALL: If you ever gave to a benev- 
olent cause it was in hope of recovering 
two to one in subsequent transactions. 
Pity, and sympathy for poor unfortunates never en- 
tered your heart.. You consider contributions for char- 
ity "money thrown away;" words of sympathy, "lost 
effort," and gifts to the poor, "encouraging laziness." 
You would build very plain alms houses, and pro- 
vide scanty means of support for the improvident, 
and want to bury paupers all in one grave, Your 
heirs will never hear eulogies about any subject with 
which you were ever connected, unless it be, that 
you died. 

CONSTRUCTIVENESS. 

LARGE: You have a natural taste for 

tools and are a genius in ingenuity. 

You can make any thing you ever saw, 

and are much inclined toward invention. It makes 

little difference what branch of mechanics you adopt, 



W POSSIBILITIES; 

you would become proficient in it, and also at the 
same time cncorporate into it branches belonging to 
other trades, [f you were not satisfied with the tools 
you have to work with, you would make others a- 
dapted to your requirements; you would make a lit- 
tle improvement over the original copy in every thing 
you manufacture. You would forget appointments and 
even the dinner hour, so intense would become your 
interest in mechanical employment. Perpetual motion 
would be very likely to receive attention and might 
derange this faculty into a useless inheritance. 
CONSTRUCTIVENESS. 
FULL: Your whole being is enthused 
with constructing, inventing and apply- 
ing mechanical arts and improvements. 
Y T ou are always on the alert to detect defects, and 
invent and successfully apply remedies. In scholas- 
tic attainments you would manifest fine discernment 
of thought, polished rhetoric, and depend upon orig- 
inal productions. You would be loyal to established 
ethics, but would intuitively adopt innovations. In 
business, you would adopt new methods, try original 
schemes of advertising, and probably become envia- 
ble prosperous by reason of radical departure from the 
beaten paths, which departure will bring you reputa- 
tion and affluence. 

CONSTRUCTIVENESS. 

MODERATE: You could learn to use 

tools by diligent service under a master, 

but never would be able to apply any 

means only those belonging Jbo the original method 

of servitude. You would show very little aptitude in 

any other branch of mechanics than the one in which 

you engage. You would be obliged to have a copy, 

and produce by duplicate whatever you undertook to 

manufacture. You never contemplate on improvement 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 88 

by producing something better than the original. You 
have no real dexterity in working with tools of any 
kind, or manipulating machinery, and Would get more 
satisfaction out of life in other channels than as a 
a mechanic or manufacturer. 

CONSTRUCTIVENESS. 
SMALL: You lack mechanism of all 
kinds. Sawing a board in two, and driv- 
ing a nail would tax your ability to 
the fullest capacity. You never attempt to repair or 
mend. You are awkward, clumsy and make wretched 
work in attempting to operate even the simplest ma- 
chine or contrivance. The complications of a saw- 
buck are about all you should attempt to keep in 
order in the line of tool using or manufacturing, 
building, or construction of any kind. 

IDEALITY. 
LARGE: You are strongly inclined toward 
a3sthetics, poesy, and exquisite refinement. 
You reach out into the ideal world, and 
transcend all of Earth's realities for the halo and de- 
light in imagery, dwell in the highest degree of viv- 
id imagination of the delicate, beautiful, and lovely. 
You are graceful, polished and fastidious, and see the 
reflection of symetry and beauty in all of your sur- 
roundings. You live in a realm of flowers, fancy 
and poetic exurberance. You love the delicate hues 
of sun-set gold, the tint of autumn leaves, and the 
moon's resplendant glory. You live fathoms above 
the ordinary affairs of earth. 

IDEALITY. 
FULL: You have a high ideal of life, 
are defined in taste, and have an ac- 
complished manner of expression; love 
poetry, art and finery. Your imagination often carries 



POSSIBILITIES, 

you away into fields of sentimental, fanciful aspira- 
tions, and you sit enchanted with the elegance and 

splendor o( the "Fields arrayed in living green/' 
You exhibit culture, taste and refinement in your 
language, deportment, dress and expression. Nothing 
would mortify you more than rude, uncouth display 
oi words, or dress. You are fond of adornment, dis- 
play and ornaments, but require them to be first 
class. You would not endure cheap, shoddy, tvvaddy, 
or tarnished dress, furniture, or architecture. 

IDEALITY. 
MODERATE: You have a good sense 
of propriety, and can appreciate the finest 
arts, either in poetry, sculpture, or the 
discernable beautiful, but never wander off into im- 
aginary worlds of "Exquisite delight" in the fanciful. 
Your value of the beautiful is, to a great extent, 
based upon the utility and practical adaptation to 
present use and enjoyment. You would connect sub- 
stantial excellency with your fairest pictures, and the 
highest award you would give to that which com- 
bines beauty and pleasure to the corporeal being. 
You would not select the fanciful skies for an a- 
biding place. 

IDEALITY. 

SMALL: You appreciate only here, a^id 
now, and are incapable of emotion under 
any circumstances. You are unimagina- 
tive, prosaic, and painfully plain. You can see no 
beauty in pictures, experience no sensation by read- 
ing the most pathetic poem, and wander around here 
on earth, guided, influenced, and controlled by mere 
animal instinct. Dress,, ornaments and culture, you 
deem as "Wicked pride," and demonstrate your an- 
tipathy against them by a slovenly dress, abrupt 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 90 

manners and vulgar associations. Barbarous tribes of 
people and atrocious criminals have also, little of this 
faculty manifest in the conformation of brain struc- 
ture, 

SUBLIMITY. 
LARGE: You are often found ad- 
miring in silent wonder, the unfathom- 
able, illimitable works of God, the stary 
heavens, His handiwork and handwriting in these 
majestic lights of glory which look down upon us 
from well nigh infinite depths of space. You would 
stand for hours enchanted, viewing the boundless 
blue of the ocean's crest. The primeval forest, in 
the dark, silent presence of the great kings of the 
wood. The mountain peaks and invisible depths of 
yawning canyons, the tempestuous rush of surging 
waters, are alike to you, objects of sublime exper- 
ience. You are prone to wander in your imagina- 
tion out into space— and enjoy the inspiration of 
Eternity, Infinity, and thoughts of the grand, the 
beautiful, and the great 

SUBLIMITY, 
FULL: You have a keen appreciation 
of the unusual, great and magnificent; 
a storm at sea, a prairie fire, a roaring 
cataract, the movements of the constellations, the 
lightning flash, the thunder clap, the cyclone's furry, 
would be the objects of most intense enjoyment. 
You love to meditate upon the vastness and unfath- 
omable works of Nature. In furnishings you would 
select those articles representing subline thought. 
Your literature would be concerned in astronomy, 
war, art, history and geology, rather than comedies. 
Your pictures would consist of rough mountain scen- 
ery, cataracts, fires, floods, and an y thing represent- 
ing stupendous grandeur. You are inclined to use 



vu POSSIBILITIES, 

bombast and high sounding expressions. 
SUBLIMITY. 
MODERATE: You enjoy seeing any thing 
great, grand, and beautiful, and have a 
fair conception of surrounding phenom- 
ena. You think of them as beyond your understand- 
ing, and are not apt to devote much time to the 
pleasure of beholding their charms, or contemplating 
the laws which govern, or the hand that creates and 
controles them. Y T ou never realize any greater sense 
of delight in beholding the impenetrable, mysterious 
greatness, than you do in viewing some ordinary 
common — place affair. You never have a home-sick- 
ness to get away beyond the every day duties of 
life, and revel in the forest's depths, or climb to the 
mountain's summit. Beauty, is to you, something 
fair and pleasing to the eye, regardless of what im- 
port is manifest, 

SUBLIMITY. 
SMALL: The trees to you, are trees; 
and you are totally oblivious to any 
sensation of awe, wonder, or contempla- 
tion. The granduer of the "Everlasting hills," is, to 
you speechless. Y r ou draw no sweet inference from the 
rain bow's tints, or the sun set's gold. The mount- 
ain gorges, and dark ravines, are hideous malforma- 
tions of Nature's extravagance, as you compute them. 
Eternity, and immortality, are the source of no de- 
lightful thought, are not food upon which you can 
concentrate the mind in reverie, and comprehend a 
spiritual power as the source of their existence. 
IMITATION. 
LARGE: Y r ou have well developed or- 
gans of imitation and mimicry. You can 
assume and impersonify any character 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 92 

you choose, and so well that your intimate friends 
would not detect the original. The voice, tone and 
gestures, and to a great extent, facial expression, would 
be a complete duplicate of the real to the very let- 
ter. Manners, language and customs are objects of 
intuitive adoption. You would adapt yourself to all 
classes of society and make a presentable appearence 
in a foreign port, within a very short period, mere- 
ly by observing the maneuvers of those around you. 
So prominent and natural is this trait, that it would 
require years of association to establish a standard 
of personal character that your friends would desig- 
nate as your own. 

IMITATION. 
FULL: You are rather inclined to fun- 
making and mimicry. You follow what 
you see and hear. You would acquit 
yourself with a good degree of credit in a company 
of persons much your superiors in intellectual attain- 
ments, by a conformity to their customs, and the 
imitation of their manners and speech. If me- 
chanically inclined, you would be able to manufac- 
ture any thing you ever saw that interested you, and 
would follow new designs, patterns and customs. 
You would adopt at once the customs and usages of 
of any new community into which you would take 1 
up your abode. You would be a failure as a leader, 
where it required an original, independent mode of 
operation. You must have some one to follow, to 
copy from, and then you could never surpass the 
pattern, though you might frequently come up to it. 
IMITATION. 
MODERATE: You can copy in every 
thing except personalities. The customs 
and rules of others you consider from a 
standpoint of reason, and if convinced of their prac- 



93 POSSIBILITIES. 

tibility you would easily conform to them. In ser- 
vice or manufacturing, you would not only come 
up to your pattern, but add to it improvement and 
usefulness. You never reason, ^because others do so" 
but manage the affairs of life from your own stand 
point. If brought up in New England, and learned 
to say "keow," you would pronounce it the same 
way should yon settle in Texas; but the amity of 
life depending upon a cordial exchange of neighbor- 
hood hospitalities would be respected with concilia- 
tion and regard to the prevailing usages with which 
you were surrounded. 

IMITATION. 
SMALL: Yon have an aversion to im- 
itate any thing or any body; have a 
way of your own and follow it witb 
tenacious persistency. You would carry to your grave 
habits and customs formed iri childhood; even should 
your residence be for many years among those who 
are governed by altogether different modes and hab- 
its and usages, and you would never realize the lu- 
dicrus predicaments such conformity to obsolete cus- 
toms would place you, in the estimation of your 
associates. Your voice, manner, and gestures, would 
never be mistaken for another. It would be impos- 
sible for you to avoid detection. Every thing about 
you proclaims: here I am! 

M1RTHFULNESS. 
LARGE: You have a very keen appre- 
ciation of the ludicrus, comical, incon- 
gruous conditions of life. Good humor 
and a laughing, jolly disposition are your personal 
characteristics. You can get ah original joke and a 
great amount of fun out of the ordinary routine of 
daily life. You are quick and apt at repartee, and 
are able to turn your wit into ridicule and the most 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 94 

scathing sarcasm. You are the life of a company, 
and your facetious sallies of wit keep them convul- 
sed with hearty, and uncontrollable laughter. You 
never laugh at your own efforts, but are highly 
elated over, and appreciate the efforts of others. Your 
mirthfulness is of a high order, the very best; any 
thing, course, low or vulgar, would not be tolerated 
for a moment. 

MIRTHFULNESS. 
FULL: You are merry, light-hearted and 
live on the sunny side. You get your 
fun out of what you have heard, and 
never forget a funny story, or good joke, but have 
them all stored up as money, on deposit in the bank, 
ready upon call. You are also fond of playing tricks 
for fun, and succeed in them to such an extent that 
your associates are cautious about accepting your state- 
ments, or asking you leading questions. You do not 
manifest much sport when caught in your own trap, 
but never show contempt or anger. You would not 
be one to cause pain or suffering in any manner, 
but as long as it was harmless, there would be no 
limit to your joking proclivities. 

MIRTHFULNESS. 
MODERATE: You like to laugh, and 
enjoy humorous company, but are not 
capable of making fun yourself, or per- 
petrating a joke. You are too matter-of-fact to think 
of any thing ludicrous, unless surrounded with a jo- 
vial company, then, for the time being, you manifest 
the highest enjoyment. In relating a funny occur- 
ance you would be so convulsed with laughter that 
it would be impossible to get a correct understanding 
of the subject. You would not show the most ami- 
able appreciation of being caught by the joke your- 
self. By yourself, and unless led by others, no one 



POSSIBILITIES. 

woul^d suppose that you could be influenced to Ijoin 
with B party oi merriment and witticism. You are 
too slow for satirical repartee, but woufld "lay it 
up" for a subsequent occasion. 

MIRTHPULNESS. 

SMALL: You have no conception of fun, 
ludicrus happenings, or comical express- 
ions, and consider laughing ribaldry as 
belonging strictly to child's play. Joking, and humer- 
on s witticisms are looked upon as trifling, and a reck- 
less squandering of time. You are slow to see and 
realize the real meaning conveyed in the good natur- 
ed tact in dressing the realities of life up into fa- 
cetious figures, in order to lighten the cares and bur- 
dens of life, by jollity and mirth. Your motto is 
sobriety, reverence and continual steadfastness. 

INDIVIDUALITY. 

LARGE: Your faculties of observation 
are largely developed. You see every thing . 
that is going on, and notice many things 
to which ordinary persons never pay any attention. 
You are very inquisitive, and may at times be con- 
sidered obtrusive in your eagerness to satisfy your 
curiosity. You always take minute observation of any 
thing new, or strange, and could give a detailed de- 
scription of any thing that came under your notice. 
Neighborhood transactions, trades, propositions, sales^ 
investments, marriages, births and deaths, all seem to 
spring up spontaneously in your knowledge. You 
know what is going on in the community, and are 
conversant with the business relations and social at- 
mosphere in the entire circle of your acquaintance. 
In case of a new neighbor, you would know more 
about his antecedents in three days, than most per- 
sons would in as manv vears. 



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INDIVIDUALITY. 
FULL: In traveling, you would see all 
the trees, fields, rivers, mountains, houses, 
barns, grass, crops, and men at work in 
the fields. You would notice what they were doing 
and how they were doing it. You would be able to 
tell at what station such a lady came into the car, 
and at what place she got oft, the color of her hair, 
eyes, and the kind of hat she wore, color of her dress, 
how it was made, color of trimings, describe her jew- 
elry, umbrella and traveling bag. At the hotel, you 
would notice the furniture, carpets, curtains, electric 
buttons, and want to know how to operate them. 
INDIVIDUALITY, 
MODERATE: You are conservative in 
your interrogations, but if not able to 
satisfy your curiosity without, will ask 
questions. You want to understand what things are 
for, how they are made, and'how to put them to 
practical use. If by close observation you can deter- 
mine these questions, you will rarely exhibit any 
interest to an outside spectator, but if not able to 
comprehend them in the manner of use, you would 
go to any inconvenience to find out. You could give 
a very fair description of things you see, in general, 
but would fail in a minute, specific of each partic- 
ular case. Many things not of special interest to you, 
would be passed without any interest as objects of 
attention demanding scrutiny or observation. What- 
ever are the controlling organs in your cranial de- 
velopment, jvouid likely lead in the style and class 
of yoar general notice, and would be more particular- 
ly observed. 

INDIVIDUALITY. 

SMALL: You are not able to individ- 
ualize objects coming under your obser- 



07 POSSIBILITIES. 

nation, or to give a description of what you have 
seen. You have a vague, dreamy consciousness of hav- 
ing passed numerous things, but to classify them in- 
to the diversified conditions to which they belong, 
would be a task utterly impossible. In traveling, 
you would perhaps remember having seen tields of 
growing vegetation, but could not say whether it was 
grass, corn, oats, potatoes or barley growing in them. 
You might remember passing through forests, but 
could not tell whether the trees were evergreen, or 
deciduous. You fail to appreciate the use and value 
of your eyes individually. 

FORM. 

LARGE: Y r ou have wonderful ability 
to remember faces and forms. Seeing a 
person once, you would instantly recog- 
nize him, years afterward. You could become very 
proficient in writing, drawing, and portrait painting; 
could learn to read and write foreign languages very 
easily, and also be an expert in architecture. You 
notice all of the corners, reliefs and shapes of buildings, 
and you could reproduce a duplicate of exact sym- 
etry; years afterwards, you could build something just 
like the one you had seen. You could describe to 
an exact particular, any thing you have ever obser- 
ved. You may not always be able to locate the 
place, or time, that certain objects came under your 
notice, but you could take a pencil and paper and 
draw a profile of the locality, or a pattern of the 
building in question. 

FORM. 

FULL: You rarely forget a face ot coun- 
tenance, and the way things look. In 
describing a horse, you w T ould probably 
say: large head, lop-eared, wide between the eyes, a 
ring-bone on the off-fore foot, crooked legs and an 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 98 

awkward traveler, and entirely omit the color. You 
would designate medicine by the square, or round 
bottle; strangers, by their size and build, the style of 
hat, the way the garments were made, style of shoes, 
rather than by the color, kind or quality of the suits 
they wore, in the country, you would notice the 
fields, as being long or square. In the city, compare 
the buildings, as high or low, manner of architect- 
ure and any peculiar shape of any thing connected 
with them. 

FORM. 
MODERATE: You have a faculty of 
selecting equal, and symmetrical configur- 
ations. You could pick out animals 
from a flock that were well formed, perfect in build, 
and those that were nearest perfect in structure; but 
would not be able to construct patterns for any me- 
chanical work, or be likely to call up in remem- 
brance any peculiar style or order you have at some 
prior period taken a fancy. You often feel morti- 
fied by persons calling you by name, and by friend- 
ly greetings, and at the same time being unable to 
call them by name. It would be impossible for you 
to sit down and draw a diagram of a boat, baloon, 
or circus tent, until you were thouroughly familiar 
with such things. It requires attention and diligence 
for you to apply this faculty mechanically, and prac- 
tical knowledge, before you can give a correct ex- 
planation of it by demonstration. 

FORM. 
SMALL. It is a very difficult matter 
for you to remember how things looked. 
The acquaintance formed at the break- 
fast table, you would not recognize at dinner time. 
In a menagerie or zoological park, some one would 
have to tell you when you had completed the circle. 



POSSIBILITIES. 

A man could engage you in an hour's conversation on 
the street, and two hours afterward, in court, you 
would hesitate to swear to his identity, ©r that you 
ever saw him before. It is hard work for you to re- 
member the form of letters, words, or to adopt the 
use of new ones. You could detect no difference in 
the form of heads or faces of your acquaintances, 
and in writing, you have to often stop and consider 
the formation of letters, before writing them. Your 
communications would probably be very original in 
construction, as you would not be able to discrimi- 
nate between the style of customary correspondence, 
and the form of your own production. 

SIZE. 
LARGE: You can aproximate distances, 
heights, lengths and breadths, to almost 
an exact certainty by your eye, and 
are considered a a good guesser" on magnitudes of 
any description. You are continually judging on top- 
ics of this kind, and have a well balanced eye for 
proportions in any way imaginable. You could tell 
the size of a barn, its height, how far it is from 
you, and how much larger it is than the one a- 
cross the road; how many acres there is in a field, 
how high the corn stood; how many feet to the first 
limb of a tree, how much it would measure in cir- 
cumference, and bow many cords of wood it would 
make, cut down and prepared for market. In traveling, 
you would be very near exactness in your estimate of 
distance, from given points. 

SIZE. 

FULL: In mechanical work you make 

a wonderfully accurate estimate of the a- 

rnount of material it would take for a 

specific job. You could saw boards the same length 

without measuring; cut off just so much meat, or 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 100 

so many yards of calico, make two, four, or a hun- 
dred horse -shoes exactly alike; tell how many yards 
of carpet it would take for a certain room, how many 
rolls of paper for the walls, how many shingles for 
the roof oi a house, and such like calculations, with- 
out any measurment except the eye, and without any 
hesitation of mind in computing the amounts. You 
would detect in an instant, any deviation from the 
proper dimensions or correctness, and manifest im- 
patience and annoyance by such inappropriate propor- 
tions. 

SIZE. 
MODERATE: There would be great risk 
in accepting your eye estimates upon 
the size of objects, except by comparison; 
for instance: you would more than likely fail in match- 
ing two horses, unless they were compared together. 
You could make a close estimate on the distance to 
an object, by walking over the ground, but fail on 
an estimate without it. All of your 1 ability in this 
line lies in the actual practice of considering meas- 
urments and estimates upon the basis of practical ex- 
perience, and what you decide upon, is after thought 
and consideration. If you wanted a parlor mirror as 
large as your neighbor's, you would first notice by 
your own height, and compare that with the mirror, 
then decide on the difference in measurement, and be 
thus guided in selecting the size wanted. You are 
obliged to have some tangible method on which to 
base a foundation for conclusive decision. 

SIZE. 

SMALL: There is but one way you could 

be sure of any thing relating to size? 

that is: by careful, precise measurement. 

You never estimate or guess at any thing of this 

nature. You are very slow and reserved in making 



101 POSSIBILITIES. 

estimates, even after you have careful measurements 
You could distinguish no difference in the size of 
your dining room and library by looking at them, 
and after being familiar with them for years, when 
there might be a difference of one third. You could 
not tell whether you went one block, or five squares 
to market, unless you would take time to count. 
You would fail to make a success as a dressmaker, 
milliner, artist, carpenter or machinist, on account 
of your deficiency in this organ of size. 

WEIGHT, 
LARGE: You are an expert in judging 
weight, would become proficient in me- 
chanics of any kind; in masonry, you 
could lay a wall perfectly straight and true, without 
level, line or plumet, and would instantly notice any 
thing not true, or at right angles with the compass. 
You would require every thing to be East and West, 
or North and South. You could work at dangerous 
heights without experiencing any thing like sea-sick- 
ness, or dizziness. You could become a '"Star" in the 
line of acrobats, bare-back riding, hurdle races, ma- 
gician, or such performences. Your ability in this 
faculty would enable you to assume attitudes nat- 
ural and graceful, in any feats that require nerve, 
skill, and balancing perception to execute them. 

WEIGHT.* 
FULL: You have a graceful carriage, 
walk with ease, and without any sen- 
sation of danger over narrow ledges, near 
precipices, or cataracts, where most people would avoid 
to go, and shudder to think about them; never stum- 
ble, maintain your equilibrium under circumstances, 
and have perfect control in adjusting your attitude to* 
the laws of gravity. You could be an expert eques- 
trian, marksman, base-ball pitcher, surveyor, or en- 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 102 

gineer. You would excell in dancing, climbing, row- 
ing, skating, rope-walking or in any gymnastic per- 
formance. You could make a kite that would fly; 
and would delight in balloon ascensions. In connec- 
tion with a favorable group of organs, this one of 
weight would be of invaluable service in the prac- 
tise of medicine, and pharmaceutical dispensation. You 
could prepare in exact proportion, the most particu- 
lar prescription of various ingredients, and do it with 
vour eye, to perfection. 

WEIGHT, 
MEDIUM: You are a good judge of 
weight by comparison with other objects, 
and bringing in its use other perceptive 
organs. You are able to form accurate estimates, and 
conform to ordinary adjustments. You would want 
to do your work by demonstrating through established 
laws as a rule, and avoid all risky chances; you 
would need a good hand-hold in climbing, and would 
be adverse to running unnecessary risks. In esti- 
mating the weight of stock, you would want to weigh 
one, and then, by bringing into use the organs of 
size, form and comparison.. You are liable to get 
"light-headed" if up high, riding backwards, in a 
boat, or looking out a car window while traveling. 
WEIGHT. 
SMALL: You appear to be ill at ease, 
even in attempting to stand still, and 
in walking, exhibit a clumsy, shambling 
gait, as if afraid the earth were liable to make ajar, 
and you fall off. You could not ride a sturdy plow 
horse, or work on a scaffold ten feet from the ground, 
nor adjust or keep in repair the simplest kind of 
machinery. You would be deficient as a cook, or in 
baking, your inability to judge of estimates would 
ruin every dish connected with culinary affairs, by 



108 POSSIBILITIES. 

the inappropriate seasonings; there would invariably 
be a little too much, or not quite enough.. You 
would push a door hard enough to slam jit, or else 
not quite hard enough to close it. Your work will 
be accomplished with much irritating complication, 
and will be very inefectual. There would be no uni- 
formity of action, or symmetry of purpose in your 
management. 

COLOR. 
LARGE: You have a very delicate per- 
ception of hues, tints and the blending 
of colors. As a milliner, your trimmings 
would be very tastily arranged, without any studied 
effort on your part, and would become very popu- 
lar for this special branch of the work. You would 
also be an adebt in landscape-gardening; the foliage, 
trees, flowers, and various shaddings, would be one of 
symmetry and beauty. You would instantly notice 
any divergency in exact adaptation, and it would be 
a source of annoyance and chagrin, for you to see ar- 
tistic taste demoralized by admixture of adverse col- 
ors, or in an inappropriate order. You would select 
fine comparisons of colors in paintings of any de- 
scription, and be able to define the various shades in 
blending, to an exact line. You would succeed as a 
producer of original patterns or designs for prints, car- 
pets, or wall-paper. 

COLOR. 
FULL: In pictures, you would notice 
the colors more than you would the ob- 
jects. In giving a description of a horse 
you would do so by giving its color; the color of 
trimmings, color of window-blinds, carpets, tapestry, 
and pictures belonging to a home: of a person; color 
of the eyes, hair, hat and suit. You would succeed 
admirably in any thing which belongs to the realm 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 104 

of decoration in art, dress, or construction. Floral 
decorations or the growing of blooming plants and 
flowers would also afford you exquisite enjoyment. 
You would delight to arrange the pots and beds in 
distinct lines of variation, and the result of your ef- 
fort would be charming in the extreme. 

COLOR. 
MODERATE: You are rather matter-of- 
fact in regard to color; you notice any 
thing particularly if represented by bril- 
liant colors, but ten minutes afterwards, you could not 
tell what the colors were, if out of sight. You would 
make poor selections for painting a house by picking 
out colors at the market, but would do fairly well 
if in comparison with some other building. In trim- 
ming a hat you would be as likely to use scarlet or 
vermillion for the light blond girl, as you would to 
select proper tints, unless guided by a pattern of some 
similarity; and the finer blending would always puz- 
zle you to determine the shades, to produce pleas- 
ing effects. So little interest is manifest in your dis- 
position to care for this faculty, that a selection of 
life work should be made that would not require large 
responsibility in this particular line of thought. 

COLOR. 
SMALL: Your ideas of beautiful colors 
are like the aboriginies, very marked, and 
consist of flaming hues, and are of dis- 
tinct, pronounced variations, if any at all are in- 
dulged in, but are more likely to not notice them in 
any form of ordinary presentment. It would be very 
difficult for you to tell one from another, and re- 
member nothing about the pictures, landscapes, foli- 
age, flowers, or appreciate the meaning or expression 
of beauty. The tints of sun-set, or early dawn, are 
sources of no more inspiration, or conception of har- 



105 POSSIBILITIES. 

monious Mendings, or any difference in hues and col- 
ors, than the midnight darkness. Persons of your 
ability in this organ, are considered and designated 
as being color-blind. 

ORDER, 

LARGE: System, method and order are 
your characteristics. All of your busi- 
ness is done upon a basis of military 
precision. Every thing has a time of attention; a 
place, and every thing in its place. Your dress, de- 
portment, bearing, all indicate the embodiment of ex- 
act execution. Your obligations are always met or 
provided for at the appointed time; no one ever has 
to wait for you to come, after the time designated. 
You would not tolerate confusion, and disorder in 
employes. You notice any thing out of place, or 
unsystematic effort, and it causes uneasiness, and 
dissatisfaction. You are without variation in your man- 
ner of doing things; always hang your hat on the 
same hook, your coat in the same place, and never 
hunt for your shoes and stockings in the morning. 
You always arrange for first duties, and allow the 
next to follow in subsequent order; never become 
confused as to which should be done first. By this 
means, you are capable of administering, in a large 
degree with despatch and certainty, any undertaking. 

ORDER. 
FULL: You never become confused and 
bewildered regarding manners of accom- 
plishing your ends. Generally speaking, 
you are considered, particular, or fastidious. Every 
one of your plans move off like clock work Things 
would always be in their place, and you could de- 
tect any molestation in your absence, though it may 
have been with care, and with a view of fooling you. 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 106 

Your habits are precise, the hour for retiring, for ris- 
ing, breakfast, dinner and supper would not vary two 
minutes in the whole year, on account of your man- 
agement. Your table, dresser, chairs and bric-a-brac, 
would never exchange places. Your entire house and 
furnishings would be one of symmetry and perfect 
order. You could get up at any time of the night 
and go to your library and get a specific volumn, in 
the dark; you would know where its place was, and 
put your hand on it at the first effort. 

ORDER. 
MODERATE: Order with you would be 
regulated as related to practical, profita- 
ble use. You have an eye for neatness 
and taste, but for temporary purposes you would 
shift along almost any way, and not worry over 
the ship-shod appearances. You value other duties 
higher, and estimate time spent on them, more es- 
sential, than to be forever dusting, polishing, and 
putting in place this ever lasting disorder. You are 
not able to command in the capacity of master of 
ceremonies in bodies of much magnitude, where it 
would be necessary to rely on tactics, to return for- 
mal and precise system. Your theory of order and 
symmetry are much in advance of your practical dem- 
onstration. You would be careful about your .own 
appearance and not mortify your friends by a course 
considered shiftless, or slovenly. You appreciate in 
others, order, system, and careful arrangements, more 
than you are willing to take upon yourself. 

ORDER. 
SMALL: You are inclined to be care- 
less and untidy; not only in manners 
and dress, but your surroundings clear- 
ly demonstrate the lack of order or system in your 
arrangements. You loose much of your time hunting 



107 POSSIBILITIES. 

for articles that have no place for storage. You never 
know where to find any thing you want. You for- 
get to meet business engagements, consequently, you 
have much annoyance in adjusting transactions. You 
manifest confusion in your address and a lack of 
ability to keep up with the times; yo ( u are consid- 
ered slow pay, unlucky, unfortunate, a child of fate, 
and exhibit a gnarled, disjointed, shambling man- 
ner of existence. You fail to recognize your destitu- 
tion in this faculty, and it would be impossible for 
you to amend until you could realize the conditions 
and apply a rigid discipline toward reform. 
CALCULATION. 
LARGE: You take great delight in com- 
puting mental problems, and have a 
wonderful ability for remembering sta- 
tistical matters, dates and numbers. In connection 
with other favorable perceptive organs, you- would be- 
come very proficient in arithmetical calculations and 
book-keeping. You are able to compute correctly by 
mental process, the most complicated sums in com- 
pound figures. You can tell how many doors there 
are in your house, how many windows, how many 
steps in the stairs; and all such matters are held in 
your memory. Every thing you do is by mathe- 
matical calculation; you would apply rules and meas- 
urements to the most ordinary, common-place affairs 
of life. You often find yourself counting objects, an d 
you can give no reason why. 

CALCULATION. 
FULL: You have a very prominent fac- 
ulty for counting and computing num- 
bers in your mind, and have great a- 
bility to see through, and understand the most com- 
plex relations of numbers to each other. In travel- 
ing, you would count the herds and flocks, and how 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 108 

many there were in each; eount the passenger? as 
they entered the car, and know the number that left 
at each station, and remember how many were in 
the car when you left. You would remember the 
number of your companions at dinner; in a party, 
the number present; the number of carriages in a pro- 
cession; number in the choir, and number of wed- 
ding guests present. And any transaction where the 
art of accountant is applicable, you would take cog- 
nizance of it, and be able to recall the exact num- 
ber in each transaction. 

CALCULATION. 
MODERATE: You are generally sure in 
your arithmetical calculations, but never 
depend on your mental computation. 
You are rather slow and deliberate in all of your 
reckonings, and have very vague remembrances of 
past transactions, or amounts involved in them. You 
have no particular liking for figures or statistics in 
any way, and would find it hard work, accompanied 
by many failures to accomplish satisfactory results in 
book-keepers' or auditors' work. It would be impossi- 
ble for you to gain prominence in higher mathemat- 
ics, or algebra; and geometrical problems would be to 
you, a conglomeration of unrecognizable hieroglyphics, 
without any appreciation of their relation to use. 
CALCULATION. 
SMALL: You have very little if any 
appreciation of numbers in any way. It 
would be difficult for you to understand 
the difference between addition, subtraction or mul- 
tiplication. It would puzzle you to remember the mul- 
tiplication table. Going to market, you would not 
remember the teams you passed, or whether they had 
one or two horses. You would forget the number of 
the street to which you were directed, unless you wrote 



109 POSSIBILITIES. 

it clown. Matters pertainning to statistical reports and 
numerals of any kind, could not be presented in a 
manner to interest you, or be pleasing to your fancy. 
To abandon all effort, toward mastering this science, 
is the thing to do. Some of our most profound 
thinkers, and learned men have been destitute of the 
faculty of calculation. 

LOCALITY. 
LARGE: You are well developed in the 
region of locality. You take great de- 
light in travel, and histories of various 
localities. Geography, would be a pleasing study, 
you would feel at home in any place, and never ex- 
perience the sensation of being "turned around". The 
points of the compass would be always right and you 
would readily find your way, either in a strange, crowd- 
ed city, or, in the unbroken forest. Out on the bound- 
less ocean, or, treeless prairie, without an object in 
sight, you would intuitively turn the right direction 
and get home without asking a question about the 
course to pursue. You have a vivid remembrance of 
places and localities, could designate on a "bee line" 
from where you stand the exact direction of a spe- 
cific spot, or locality. You could be placed in a strange 
place, at the hour of midnight, and without a star to 
guide you, you could pick out the exact place the 
sun would make its first appearance in the morning. 
LOCALITY. 
FULL: You like to travel and inves- 
tigate new localities and conditions; are 
likely to allow this propensity to pre- 
vent you from ever becomming permanently attached 
to any one place, and unless guarded against, 
might result disasterously with your financial ability 
to comply with its promptings. You never forget a 
place once visited, and can describe the surround- 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 110 

ings in minute particulars. You can explain the nat- 
ural conditions, lay of the land, the timber, 'mount- 
ains, streams, rocks, lakes and general phenomena. 
Had you participated in the strife at Lookout, Get- 
tysburg, Bull Run or any other of the historic fields, 
you would have an insatiate desire to visit them, and 
years afterward, you would be able to put your foot 
down on the identical spot, where your comrade at 
your side fell, mortally wounded. You would delight 
to form colonies, and emigrate to new countries; form 
new affiliations for the sake of new experiences in 
original surroundings and new localities. 
LOCALITY. 
MODERATE; You have no particular 
desire for traveling merely for the sake 
of going, but when necessary, enjoy new 
scenes and strange latitudes. You rely upon the sun 
in day, and sky phenomena at night, to determine 
the points of the compass; even then, you very oft- 
en feel confused by the sun appearing to rise in 
the North; or by being "turned around". You would 
not realize any familiarity with a country by driv- 
ing along a road, after a short interval since your 
former visit, unless connected with some special ob- 
ject by which you were unusually interested. In the 
lorest, you would be compelled to record some mark 
or demonstration of your own origin, to convince 
you that you had ever been there before. You would 
depend more upon the numbers to lead you in the 
city, than by the appearance of the buildings, even 
after being acquainted in the place. 

LOCALITY. 
SMALL: You have no taste or incli- 
nation to explore or investigate strange 
lands. You realize a sense of your in- 
ability to find your way in strange places. You have 



Ill POSSIBILITIES. 

no taste for geography, or literature pertaining to 
discoveries, explorations and travels. You would not 
leave home unless absolute necessity demanded it, 
and then would scarcely notice roads, boats, cars, 
or directions. You would not notice whether you were 
going East, West, North or South; and could form 
no idea oi' the direction to your home. You never 
are confused by cardinal points, because your con- 
ception of places and localities is so vague, that it 
is impossible for you to retain an established 
center upon whidh to base imaginary lines. You sim- 
ply manifest a sense of destitution in this faculty, 
which leaves you at the mercy of others for direction 
and upon whose knowledge you must depend in all 
matters relating to the functions of this organ. You 
have no migratory inclination, and will likely live, 
and die, in the land of your nativity. 
EVENTUALITY, 
LARGE: You are naturally inclined 
toward scholastic attainments, and seem 
to assimilate knowledge as you do the 
air you breath; study it in every thing which comes 
under your notice. You get it from every tree, flower, 
and plant. You have a hungering for facts contained 
in books, remember what you read, and can relate 
it, give the date, author, and quotation. You admire 
history, especially that which partakes of war, explor- 
ation, or discovery, and you could call up any event, 
give the participants, time, and results, almost equal 
to the statement in the history itself. You could give 
a vivid description of battles, epidemics and acci- 
dents, in all of the minute details. You could call 
up any date referred to in historical biography, in- 
cluding time, place and circumstances. You will be 
well posted on the events of the day, and take much 
interest in news paper and current literature. 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 112 

EVENTUALITY. 
FULL: You have a good memory of 
dates, events and of things pertaining 
to the past, but in your own personal 
experience, every transaction is indelibly imprinted on 
your mind, and is ready as reference upon all oc- 
casions. Your particular taste would, in history, lead 
you into fields of action, rather than science or art. 
Any thing relating to war, the Reformation, discoveries 
or invention, would enlist your intense earnestness; 
and upon such subjects you will be well informed. 
A person making mistakes in quotation, either # in 
name, time, or place of occurance, you would in- 
stantly notice. You will keep well up with the 
news of the day, and be considered authority on all 
disputed questions. You can go into details of any 
transaction with which you have been a party, and 
unfold the whole panorama into life-like experience 
without any hesitation, or deviation from the exact 
facts in the case. 

EVENTUALITY. 
MODERATE: You are, on all general 
subjects, well posted, but in reciting the 
past, or in referring to matters of his- 
tory, you fail to remember the exact date, or the 
particular details relating to the facts in question. 
You are not disposed to remember incidents that have 
happened in the past, .outside of the part in which 
you have personally figured; and have no special 
taste for history of any kind. You would not value 
a library of historical or biographical works, beyond 
the actual cash price they would bring under the 
hammer at forced sale. Current and popular litera- 
ture, you would appreciate to the extent of tima you 
tel't that you could devote to it; and also, as 
relating to the bearing it would have upon practical 



113 POSSIBILITIES. 

uses. You would not likely be enthusiastic over 
studies outside ot the particular branch, bearing upon 
your special avocation or calling. 

EVENTUALITY. ' 

SMALL: You have a very treacherous 
memory, and with great difficulty recall 
the happenings of a few days ago. The 
past is enshrouded in a dreamy mist, and you can 
not connect the details into an intelligent rehearsal. 
Circumstances, and happenings drop down and out 
of your memory as the sun sets at night, and the 
Blind is oblivious to all the past. The events of the 
present, engross the mind and cause a pleasing inter- 
est, but memory has no power to weave them into 
realistic similitudes, and store them up as deposits 
from which to draw in seasons of dirth and want, 
consequently, you have no taste for history or met- 
aphysical studies, and fail to attach any value to their 
pursuit. 

TIME. 
LARGE: You have an excessive devel- 
opment of time, and are a wonder, if 
not quite a prodigy in this respect. 
You never miss a train, boat, or appointment, are 
always there, and ready. You have excellent ability 
for a professional nurse in this respect, you could be- 
come habituated to waking up within ten minutes 
of medicine time during the entire night, and dur- 
ing the balance of the night enjoy sound slum- 
ber. You are able to "guess'' the time of day, to 
almost exact precision, and are always prompt and 
ready at the time set for any deliberation. Y T ou have 
a faculty of creating rhythm in all of your movements. 
You involuntarially keep time in your movements 
with conditions with which you are surrounded, the 
ticking of the clock, the splashing of the waves, the 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 114 

tremor of machinery in motion, or rustling of the 

leaves. 
. % TIME. 

PULL: You are very accurate in com- 
puting time of occurances, and having 
correct recollection of dates, the time of 
marriages, deaths, births, ages, and matters of that 
kind. You are precise in walking, observe uniform 
steps, regular gait and perfect symmetry of motion. 
You would walk for squares and never break step 
with your companion; have uniform relation with 
time in all of your arrangements. In music, your 
time would be the most perfect part. In speaking, 
you observe systematic time in forming your words, 
and pronouncing your sentences. You would inva- 
riably begin ceremonies at the precise time, and be 
ready to close promptly. People would at once notice 
your deportment in this matter and govern them- 
selves accordingly. 

TIME. 

MODERATE: You are not an adebt in 
time, or in keeping appointments; in fact 
you are often inclined to forget impor- 
tant engagements, and are not noted for your pre- 
cision in business channels, when the time question 
is being considered. In music, you would make a du- 
plicate to "The New Church Organ"; "They too fast 
or I too slow, to mansions in the skies." You would 
forget the date of your marriage, or birth, death, and 
marriage of a child, without referring to the family 
record. You have no conception of the passing of 
time, or the time of day, without some sun mark, 
or time regulator. You have no taste or faculty for 
any thing to maintain even a normal function ol 
this faculty, the cognizance of the duration of time, 
or dates. ♦ 



115 POSSIBILITIES. 

TIME. 

SMALL: You can not recall the time 
of occurences in which you have play- 
ed a prominent part; and are forgetful 
of the duties requiring punctual attention in your 
daily life. In music, you could not distinguish the 
most inharmonious cords or variations. In walking, 
it would be difficult to kefcp step with you on ac- 
count of your shambling, irregular motions. You 
never do your work in a systematic, orderly, method. 
You would wait until the dinner hour before mak- 
ing preparations for the meal. You invariably get 
to the depot, or ferry, just in time — to see the train 
pull out; and to the bank, just after closing hours. 
You are proverbial for getting "left." You are never 
ready at an appointed time, and in every thing per- 
taining to your business transactions, you would re- 
quire an extension of time; in short, plain language, 
you are always behind. 

TUNE. 

LARGE: Music fills your soul with ec- 
static delight; melody, harmony, sym- 
phony, are the sources of an inspiration 
which transports you far beyond all of the discords 
belonging to earthly conditions. You could become 
very proficient in music, and able to sing or play 
a selection correctly by ear, after hearing it. You 
would exhibit wonderful skill with musical instru- 
ments of any kind, and would produce melody that 
would give pathos and reach the emotive impulses 
with enchanted delight. You would detect the least 
discord, or mistake in rendition of musical perform- 
ance. Your taste is for the sublime, elevating, in- 
spiring, and your appreciation of this harmony which 
thrills every nerve and' fibre, expresses this rapture 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 116 

which beams in a countenance of perfect happiness 
and exquisite delight. 

TUNE. 
FULL: You have a very fine taste for 
music "and can detect any discordant 
rhythm in instrumental or vocal music; 
so keen is your perception in this respect, that you 
recognize your acquaintances by hearing their steps; 
your horses, by the sound of their travel; your car- 
riage, by its rumble; your sewing machine, your ca- 
nary, your cat, your dog, and your clock, by the noises 
they make. In operating machinery, you would hear 
the very first indication of a dry bearing, or any 
out-of-order condition, no matter how small, and you 
could locate the peculiar variations in the regular 
clanking of the machinery and would adjust it with- 
out delay. You can control your voice to harmoni- 
ous modulations. Harshness, under any condition, 
is very repulsive to you. In public speaking, you 
would probably devote more attention to your tone, 
culture and melody of voice harmony, than you would 
to the subject matter. The most scholarly, profound 
thought, would have little responsive appreciation with 
you unless delivered in equally as cultivated, grace- 
ful harmony of voice and gesture. 

TUNE. 

MODERATE: You would never become 

enthusiastic over musical accomplishments, 

neither would you become frantic by 

hearing discord, or inharmonious productions. You 

could, by patience and diligence become proficient in 

song, or instrumental music, but it would require 

bard work, and continual practice. What you do in 

this direction, will be purely mechanical, it would 

produce no soul inspiration within you; and reach 



117 POSSIBILITIES. 

no responsive cord or soothing influence in the heart 
of your hearers. Music is far from being the great 
ambition of your life, and you could not under any 
circumstances, even the most favorable, acquit your- 
self in any place as a musician, with satisfaction to 
your hearers, or pleasure and ease to yourself. 

TUNE. 
SMALL; Your faculty of tune is wholly 
deficient, and you can distinguish no 
more melody in classic music, than in 
a clashing gong; it is all noise to you— just noise. 
You can distinguish no difference in tunes or airs; 
Yankee Doodle, and Auld Lang Syne, are, to you, alike. 
The deepest pathos in song, would not touch a re- 
sponsive recognition in your heart. You are careless 
about language, and can discern no difference in the 
tone of speech Or emphasis of expression. No one 
ever heard you whistle, and it would cause a sen- 
sation for you to attempt to sing. A musical in- 
strument would be the last piece of furniture you 
would buy, then it would be under protest. 
LANGUAGE. 

LARGE: You manifest no hesitancy in 
expressing your thoughts, and are never 
at a loss to know what to say; have ex- 
cellent memory of words, and their relations; are 
very choice in word expression, and use good lan- 
guage. You can pronounce words of foreign tongues 
by hearing them spoken, and would become a fluent 
linguist. You can remember and recite correctly any 
kind of literary or historical production, with but 
yery little study. You have a natural vocabulary at 
your tongue's end, and use it easily, freely, and often 
indulge in verbosity of expression. As a rule, you 
are inclined to extravagance in speaking, and redun- 
dancies in correspondence; also manifest a disposition 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 118 

to be tedious and copious in the use of words in 
relating the most common place occurrences. Your 
conversation, or words and sentences constructed for 
oratorical purposes, would consist largely in quota- 
tions and fancy word-paintings, rather than solid 
sentiment, producing food for thought. 
LANGUAGE. 

FULL: You enjoy great freedom of 
speech, and have the faculty of express- 
ing yourself, clearly, forcibly and to the 
point. You are always understood, and can remem- 
ber what you have ever learned, or heard spoken, 
and can repeat verbatim. You can explain any thing 
you know, make it clear, and are a better student 
in hearing things, than you are in laborious study. 
You could make a success in any profession where 
extemporaneous speaking would be required, but might 
be considered prolix and tedious. You are fond of 
talking and will indulge in the practice by improv- 
ing every opportunity of conversation, even with a 
child, your horse, dog, cat or canary, in the ab- 
sence of other company. 

LANGUAGE. 
MODERATE: You use correct language 
as a rule, in speaking, but frequently 
have to think for the word you wish to 
use, and sometimes it may drop entirely out of your 
memory and } r ou are compelled to substitute some 
other, or hesitate until you can recall it. This dif- 
ficulty would mittigate against you becoming a suc- 
cess as a public speaker, but in your correspondence 
you* would realize very little inconvenience in this 
respect, as the process would give you ample time 
for meditation at such points, without the embar- 
rassment of an expectant audience before you. You 
also exhibit some deficiency in remembering quota- 



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tions, ami invariably make the mistake of a, wrong 
repetition which looses the effect and borders on the 
redioulous. 

LANGUAGE. 

SMALL: You should be glad, that his- 
tory records one of the world's greatest 
men as having been "Slow of speech and 
stammering tongue," that you can point with pride 
toward your illustrious example of the same endow- 
ment. You are taciturn, and it is with great dif- 
ficulty that you express yourself understandingly, on 
account of this disability. You hesitate for words, 
and in conversation use as few as possible. You 
would make a signal failure as a speaker, and prob- 
ably not do much better in writing. Language is one 
of the permanent barriers which will forever preclude 
the possibility of your taking an active part in any 
of the important deliberations which come up for ad- 
justment through the channels of debate and argu- 
ment. 

CAUSALITY. 
LARGE: You are disposed to inquire 
into the reason of things, and take com- 
prehensive, logical views of every thing, 
pertaining to cause and effect. You are great in o- 
riginal theory, and take the lead by common concent, 
among your companions. You are recognized as a per- 
son of superior judgment, and philosophical turn of 
mind. You never take anything for granted, or ac- 
cept any theory or creed, until you have investigated 
the beliefs and doctrines, and established the reason- 
ableness of their claims. You believe nothing that 
you can not give a reason for your grounds for caus- 
ation. You devote much of your time, and do much 
hard thinking on entirely new, and original theories, 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 120 

those that you plan out, and investigate beyond any 
principle accepted upon a hypothesis. You want to 
know the why and wherefore, and are not satisfied 
with conjecture, but want to know for certain. There 
is great danger of your theoretical ideas carrying you 
beyond reasonable, practical bounds. 
CAUSALITY. 

FULL: Your mind is active in reason- 
ing ability. You investigate first cause, 
and follow it up until you find your- 
self out in the infinite realms of space, adducing prin- 
ciples to explain the phenomena of existance, crea- 
tion, and metaphysics. Your mind is one peculiarly 
adapted to the study of a naturalist. You have a 
consciousness of inherent relation with nature's laws, 
and possess rare qualifications to apply this knowledge 
to every day use. You will be a leader in thought, 
and manifest clear and definite conceptions of reason- 
ing power relative to conditions, causes, effects and 
logical theories. You will be in advance of the com- 
mon crowd, in your doctrine and belief; but so well 
balanced are your other reflective faculties, that time 
will award you the verdict of advocating only rela- 
tions established upon philosophical foundations. 
CAUSALITY. 
MODERATE: You reason every thing 
• down to absolute certainties, to just what 
you can see and understand, and if you 
reach a point beyond this, where you have to draw 
on inferences, you abandon the whole thing, and set 
it down among the impossibilities. The various stra- 
ta in the earth's formation, found by geological sur- 
veys, and formed by ages of natural deposit, are be- 
yond your comprehension, to conceive the cause. You 
never reason out new plans or methods, and adopt 



m POSSIBILITIES. 

those measures inquiring the least mental exertion to 
secure results. You would signally fail in any posi- 
tion dependent upon original plans to adjust the in- 
tricate details of lite. You may be able to * follow de- 
vised work on plans by a superior intellect, but your 
thinking ability is of the surface, superficial quality. 
You are conscious of the changes of the seasons, but 
would feel greatly embarrassed if called upon to ex- 
plain, why it is colder in winter than it is in sum- 
mer. You are of the same belief as the author you 
are reading. You adhere to the same theory advo- 
cated by your speaker, and adopt the same reasons 
advanced in conversation by your neighbors. 
CAUSALITY. 
SMALL: You see men walking, and the 
trees growing, but you never ask your- 
self why the trees leaf out in the spring, 
why the bark is on the outside of the tree, why 
some are deciduous and some evergreen, why there is 
more moss on the north side of the roots than there 
is on the south side, why they always lean over the 
water when growing on the bank of a stream, why 
the heart of the tree is nearer the surface on the 
side from which it leans, or a thousand other questions 
relating to the phenomena which surround our daily 
lives. You have no definite reason for your theories 
or beliefs, only because you think so, with no argu- 
ment either for, or against. Planning, contriving, med- 
itating, reflecting, thinking, reasoning, philosophizing, 
are all beyond your capability of comprehension. 
COMPARISON. 
LARGE: You are well endowed with 
the faculty to compare, analyze, and to 
notice the analogy of conditions, one 
with the other. In argument or discourse, you would 
draw out comparisons, illustrate by similies, and draw 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 122 

your inferences from other parallel lines. You would 
take comfort in any misfortune which might befall 
you, by remembering some greater calamity through 
which others have passed. You notice the dif- 
ferences existing among men; their various freaks of 
eccentricities, and always consider such metaphors by 
comparing other resemblences. to other cases within 
your knowledge. You would, as a writer, be pro- 
fuse in the use of parables, and entertaining as a 
spfeaker by the use of inductive reasoning. You would 
hold an audience in attentive attitude by your facul- 
ty of treating subjects in broad and manifold com- 
parisons, and illustrations. Your argument would be 
based upon the "Eternal fitness of things/' and you 
would be exacting in the extreme, in opposing in- 
congruous and unreasonable affiliations, or agencies 
not in harmony with the time and place. 
COMPARISON. 
FULL: You reason largely by compar- 
ison, and draw largely on inferences. 
It is natural for you to remember very 
many transactions and circumstances which have 
entered into your past experience, and you invaria- 
bly refer to them in deducing the present adjustment 
of conditions. You appreciate instantaneous action, 
and prompt decision. No hesitancy or doubts ever 
enter into your action in conclusions. You would 
become an expert in pharmaceutical science, or in 
any avocation where results depend upon quick, prac- 
tical judgment. In law, you would have an exhaust- 
less supply of cases, similarities and court rulings, 
from which to produce overwhelming argument by 
applying these various phases to particular bearings 
in your case under consideration. In gospel, your 
strong point would be, "The parables." You would be 
popular, and have large following by reason of your 



123 POSSIBILITIES, 

ability to harmonize those sublime truths, and reduce 
them to practical demonstration, and enable your par- 
ishners to realize kk the reasonableness, and justness," 
of conforming to right principles. 

COMPARISON. 
MODERATE: You are not capable of 
demonstrating points by comparison, and 
have little faculty to illustrate by anec- 
dote, or draw inferences from past history or expe- 
rience. Having two articles in close proximity, you 
might discern differences, or admire similarities, but 
you could not apply any thing of the kind in way 
of reasoning to carry a point in logical argument. 
You would not be apt to understand and explain 
complex questions and enigmatical conditions. You 
are not apt to criticize, or even notice errors in state- 
ments or assertions made in your presence. You do 
not always exhibit the best taste in selection of cir- 
cumstances and conditions, for instance: you would 
not realize the incongruousness of singing "Dixie," 
or giving three cheers for the "Fallen heros" on dec- 
oration day. The great number of analogies and com- 
parisons in Bible history, are not incidents which in - 
terest, or contribute to your reasoning faculties a 
source of comfort and delight in practical application. 

COMPARISON. 
SMALL: You have very little conception 
or appreciation of examples taught by 
parables or comparison; indeed such dis- 
criminations are entirely beyond your ability of thought 
or reason. You would make a dismal failure in any 
life occupation depending upon analytical considera- 
tion. You would realize no similarities or resemblances 
of transaction, or appearance; you look upon things 
just as they are, without thinking from whence they 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 124 

came, or considering their formation, or relation of 
dependence upon something else. You lack in reason- 
ing ability, adapting means to ends, and are not ca- 
pable of contriving, thinking and providing for the 
necessary comforts of life, by reason of the deficien- 
cy of the faculty to discern what is, and what is 
not applicable in classifying the duties which devolve 
upon you for equalization and proportionment. 
HUMAN NATURE. 
LARGE: You have wonderful ability to 
read character, and are an excellent judge 
of human nature. You can give a cor- 
rect synopsis of the general traits of character when 
you first meet a stranger; this is done instantly, be- 
fore you have time to reason or form opinions by 
any analogy, simply by intuitive knowledge. You know 
that yoa are able to do this, but are not able to ex- 
plain how you do it; and you are always right in 
your first impression or delineation. By reason of 
circumstances, conditions, or influences, should you 
change, and modify your first decision, the light of 
subsequent demonstration will prove the latter to be 
wrong. You are not liable to be deceived, or mis- 
led. You seem to read the thoughts, and discern the 
motives of designing persons, and to be inspired with 
supernatural ability to understand the spiritual dis- 
position and aspiration of an enquiring soul-a single 
glance at a person will be more convincing of moral 
rectitude and practical worth, than voluminious let- 
ters of introduction from popular dignataries. 

HUMAN NATURE. 

FULL; You are happily constituted in 

this faculty, for successful management 

of any enterprise having to deal with 

many persons. You could, intuitively adjust your at- 



135 POSSIBILITIES. 

titude to agreeable relation with* perfect strangers. 
You would know just how to "take" each one, and 
in dealing with a thousand perfect strangers in* a single 
day, you would not make a mistake in approaching 
them. You could adapt yourself to any peculiar re- 
quirements relating to eccentric, biased, or designing 
motives, and never be suspected of having knowledge 
of their existence. You would, in this respect, be 
preeminently fitted for a prosecuting attorney, police 
judge or detective. This faculty is, also, one of the 
very strongest, in all eminently successful ministers, 
lawyers, teachers and public benefactors, — readers of 
men. 

HUMAN NATURE. 
MODERATE: You are frequently mis- 
taken in your estimate in character, and 
rarely form an opinion only upon long 
and tried acquaintance. Your credulity is often taken 
advantage of by unscrupulous persons. Your nature 
would be a prolific field for the "gold brick," "soap 
and jewelry," "lightning rod" or "three card monte" 
schemes so often perpetrated by professional swindlers. 
Pitiful stories by tramps and indigent persons arouse 
your sympathy and you would be unable to discrim- 
inate between the deserving ones, and those who were 
the most consummate frauds. You also doubt your 
own ability in this matter, and realize your weak- 
ness and likelyhood to be deceived and hoodwinked, 
and generally console yourself with the acknowledg- 
ment, that it was "just what you expected anyway." 
You are apt to be biased, and prejudiced by sur- 
rounding conditions, in forming opinions of personal 
character, if you would abandon all antecedents and 
trust entirely to your own opinion, without waver- 
ing from the very first instinctive impression, you 
would gradually gain strength in this faculty, but 






MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 126 

never be able to adduce correct estimates of personal 
character or moral worth. 

HUMAN NATURE. 
SMALL: You never realize any sensa- 
tion on meeting strangers, and never feel 
any inclination to judge of the charac- 
ter, ability, or natural proclivities. You hardly feel 
the presence of any intuition or faculty to take cog- 
nizance of character, tone, voice, or general deport- 
ment. You estimate the whole creation by your own 
mental caliber, and are powerless to go beyond your 
own experience in considering, or in delineating of 
any one's capacity or mental endowments. You would 
exhibit no sagacity, skill, or tact, in approaching per- 
sons in various stations, or plains of life; and, out- 
side of plain English words, you would not recognize 
whether it would be acceptable and appreciated, or 
indignantly rejected. Demeanor, expression by ac- 
tions, would be to you totally oblivious. So light are 
your endowments in this organ that you will be 
continually harassed by a misunderstanding of the 
relations existing between the "just and unjust," fools 
and philosophers, saints and hypocrites. 

AGREEABLENESS 
LARGE: You are remarkably endowed 
with the faculty of making yourself a- 
greeable, and suiting yourself to condi- 
tions and environments. You always say the right 
thing at the right time, and by your conciliatory dis- 
position, you are able to win the good will and af- 
fections of all your associates. You will be the 
center of every circle, and without flattery or bom- 
bast, win the applause and support of a very large - 
constituency. Your manner of speech and deportment 
is so foreign to any selfish or mercenary motives, 



127 POSSIBILITIES. 

that even those of adverse opinion, would be con- 
strained to yield to your persuasive, fascinating man- 
ner. You will ingratiate yourself into the graces of 
every one, and even in open opposition, your words 
would be so smooth and bland, that the most fas- 
tidious could not help rendering you gracious con- 
sideration. 

AGREEABLENESS. 

FULL: You are pleasing, agreeable and 
a favorite in social circles, because of 
your amiable disposition and polite man- 
ners; are not easily affronted, and bear with provok- 
ing experiences without manifesting any resentment 
or ill will. Your manner is to adjust all of the 
intricate bearings of life without friction or harsh, 
grating bearings. You would be able to smooth out 
all of the ruffles of excited passion, and by your 
suavity would win the pleasant, agreeable cooperation 
of those around you, in the promotion of delightful 
courtecies and personal considerations extended in the 
daily duties of life. As a teacher, your discipline 
would be so applied that each pupil would esteem 
it a privilege to obey, and there would probably 
exist a spirit of rivalry in rendering you service. 
Y r our spirit would create a sun-shiny, happy at- 
mosphere which would be assimilated by your asso- 
ciates, and a spirit of kindness, deference and charm- 
ing politeness would permeate the very being of 
every participant. 

AGREEABLENESS. 

MODERATE: You can by effort, be 

pleasant and agreeable, but it is not the 

spontaneous outgrowth of a natural gift. 

Following after inherent qualities, you would be 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 128 

gruff, crude and harsh, in your intercourse with 
your fellow man. Your friends offer frequent apol- 
ogies for your brusque manners, by the declaration 
that it is just your "way." You would not be a pop- 
ular leader in society, church, or politics, and yet, 
you are perfectly honest in all of your expressions. 
You consider any affable condescension as flattery, and 
only applicable "to weak, vacillating minds. You look 
upon the pleasant, pliable suavity of persons as as- 
sumed acquirements for the sole purpose of policy's 
sake. You are inclined to be awkward and clannish 
in movement and address, and realize your inability 
to exhibit grace, culture, or a pleasant bearing. 
AGREEABLENESS. 
SMALL: You have no conception of the 
harmonious relations of address in the 
associations which continually present 
themselves in our daily lives; and are very apt to say 
and do just what ought not to be said and done, 
at that particular time. You have no taste or abili- 
ty to paliate or pass by unnoticed, even small par- 
ticulars that should not occupy a moment's thought. 
You are continually in "hot water," and are repulsed 
and shunned by all who know your disposition to 
apply sharp, blunt expressions to even the best, and 
most liberal enterprise. Wherever a pessimist would 
live, and grow, and be happy, would be your realm. 
There is no place among the habitations of men, where 
you would be received as a welcome guest. Humanity 
would however, accord you one popular reception,— 
in the cemetary, and select the only applicable epi- 
taph, "Blessed are the dead," for a monumental thank 
offering, that Nature had decreed to you relief, from 
the sharp corners which inadvertently sprang up along 
your path, during your earthly pilgrimage. 

NOTE. — A trite saying among all Phrenologist's is, 
that "size, other things being equal, is the measure 
of power." However, in the cranial development and 
cerebral conformation we find frequent, and as great 
discrepancy, as there is in any other natural phe- 
nomena. As a 'rule, also, the organs constituting a 



[29 POSSIBILITIES. 

group, are of uniform relation to each other. Hence, 
when the group of moral sentiments are large, we 
expect to find the organs of Conscientiousness, Hope, 
Spirituality, Veneration, and Human Nature well devel- 
oped. As a rule they are, but there are heads abnorm- 
ally developed in Veneration, and almost totally desti- 
tute of Conscientiousness; such persons would be devout 
worshipers, and strong adherents of church polity, and, 
at the same time, be false to, and betray their best friend. 
Then the high narrow head, signifying a narrowness of 
conception, and failure to comprehend only one method 
of thoxxght-their own; extremists in some particular the- 
ory, unable to adjust themselves to harmonious relations 
with their surroundings, or to enjoy the benificent pro- 
visions Nature has intended for her children. The group 
of the reasoning faculties, indicated by the narrow com- 
pressed forehead, precludes the possibility of a happy, ge- 
nial, well rounded and symmetrical life. Another type, 
the wide flat head, bound to earth by animal propensities, 
and to life only by the appetite. Add to this formation 
excessive Acquisitiveness and Secretiveness, and we have 
the componant parts of the worst criminal. History, in 
all ages, hands us down results of these malforma- 
tions in brain structure. The language used in the prim- 
itive days of Judas Iscariot, proclaimed it to be, a possess- 
ed of the Devil. * ? The vocabulary of the Nineteenth Cen- 
tury has modified, and classified the same results to ec- 
centric, fanatic, and monomaniac, with the street applica- 
tion of "crankiness,' 1 for general distribution. While these 
persons are a menace to our civilization, the most deplor- 
able feature is, that they are incapable of realizing their 
situation; and unless a person sincerely wants to reform, 
and feels conscious of having committed grievous wrong, 
there is no hope for repentance, or of bringing the will- 
power into subjection, in stimulating the cooperation of 
other organs, to assist in counteracting and influencing 
the intellectual forces in overcoming natural proclivities. 
Mental Science, or Phrenology, can offer no solution as to 
any process by which these deluded souls may be made 
to realize their perverted condition, or to allure them in- 
to the reality of the enjoyments of a well balanced life; 
but it can so classify them that the blame, censure and 
exasperating experiences with them, may be mitigated 
and harmonized in the great drama of human existence. 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 130 

CONCLUSION. 



"If men but knew the mazes of the brain 
And all its crowded pictures, they would need 
No Louvre or Vatican: behind our brows 
Intricate galleries are built, whose walls 
Are rich ivith all the splendors of a UfeP 

Sill. 

To the one examined: 

In marking out this examination 
you may be incredulous as to some of the organ- 
ic faculties designated as large, or full, while others, 
perhaps termed moderate, or small, may seem to be 
erroneous, according to your own computation. 

This discrepancy may exist, by reason of educa- 
tion or environments. Circumstances may have cir- 
cumscribed your limitations to some specific line of 
action. Education may have placed you in a po- 
sition not in correlation with natural endowments. 
Whatever your cranial development, it is yours by 
inheritance; not by choice. As the finger board at 
the cross-roads points the way to market, so, Phre- 
nology, will guide you along the "way." You are 
here to reason. Theology may assume, and revela- 
tion will prove, — hereafter. This is Nature's world. 
Obedience to her mandates is of paramount impor- 
tance. Placing yourself in harmony with her laws, 
is securing the highest degree of usefulness here and 
is the only guarantee of happiness hereafter. It is 
not sound philosophy to condemn the elements. The 
next world should not detract our attention from 



131 POSSIBILITIES. 

the enjoyable features to be recognized in this. A 
harmonious combination of all our faculties is the su- 
preme object of living. The Creator endowed us with 
no superfluous powers. That was His prerogative. 
It is our business to develop, apply, and control them. 
He had a purpose in creating us, and that motive 
could not be, that our natures should be inherently 
corrupt. The theory, that physical creation is disorder- 
ed, and that we sin when acting in conformity with 
our natural feelings, is fallacious in the extreme. In 
treating on this same subject, we quote from that ad- 
mirable work, Comb's Constitution of Man: "No fac- 
ulty is bad; but, on the contrary, each has a le- 
gitimate sphere of action, and, when properly grati- 
fied, i& a fountain of pleasure; in short, man pos- 
sesses no feeling, of the right exercise of which an 
enlightened and ingenuous mind need be ashamed." 

To possess a brain of symmetrical proportions is a 
competency in itself. To overcome natural proclivities, 
and eliminate animal, sensual, groveling traits of char- 
acter, by increasing and strengthening the moral and 
intellectual organs, is a distinction worthy of emulation. 

If your moral, reasoning, and perceptive faculties 
are large, there is no especial credit due you by reason of 
unquestionable deportment. It is a natural result. If, 
on the other hand, your social, and selfish propensi- 
ties greatly predominate, and you have, by an almost 
superhuman effort, been true to humanity, you stand 
on a higher plain, than he who has conquered a 
province by the munitions of war. Improvement, or 1 
advancement, in this matter, implies two conditions: 
consciousness of present weakness, and an indefat- 
igable purpose to overcome, and be master of cere- 
monies yourself, instead of being ruled by passion anc 
propensity. 

The first proposition, you can determine by a care-1 



MENTAL SCIENCE DELINEATION. 132 

ful perusal of the foregoing pages, and by so doing ful- 
ly understand where your NATURAL ENDOWMENTS 
place you. The second, is at your own discretion; 
the effort you put forth toward the final victory, in 
enjoying a life at perfect peace with yourself and all 
mankind, to so order your "walk and conversation" 
for Nature 

"To write no secret in the face 
For men to read it there" 

This brings us to the last ordeal, — final dissolution, 
Every plant, fruit, vegetable, grain, fish, fowl and 
animal, has given up its life before being prepared 
in palatable condition for the* sustenance of man. 

In like manner, younger, stronger, and more vig- 
orous ones, must, by natural descention, supplant the 
aged and decrepit. There is nothing deplorable in 
death. It is an awful thing to live. 

Tragedies are enacted in daily life, and borne si- 
lently and uncomplainingly, which require greater 
strength and courage to live and endure, than it would 
to suffer martyrdom for principle. Under these con- 
ditions, who would doubt, that death would be as 
welcome as the pillow to the sleepy babe. But un- 
der the most auspicious circumstances, and perfectly 
natural conditions, if your life has been orderd by 
true principles of manhood, in your intercourse with 
your fellow-man, the shadows, as they lengthen to- 
ward the closing day, will be filled with memories 
as beautiful in blending as the autumn leaves in the 
sun-set tints of gold. 

There is nothing in any religion, doctrine, dogma 
or belief, that reaches further into Immortality, than 
a life of truth and honor with our fellow-man. If 
your friends can truthfully say, as your open grave 
receives its dust, that you never deceived, or were 
false to those you knew, there is no more valuable, or 



138 POSSIBILITIES. 

enduring legacy left to the living, or honor in the 
memory of the lives of those who have died. 

"Rest is not quitting the busy career, ' 
Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. 
L Tis loving and serving the highest and best, 
' Tis onward unswerviug, and that is true rest" 
"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: 
for the end of that man is peace." 

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